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• Title:The wave : in pursuit of the rogues, freaks, and giants of the ocean / Susan Casey.
  
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• Author/Creator:Casey, Susan, 1962-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Doubleday, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: GC227 .C37 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Rogue waves.
  Surfing.
  Ocean waves.
  Oceanography.
  
• Medical Subjects: Oceanography
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:326 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:Investigates colossal ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories; waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few decades, as a number of ships have vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something was brewing in the planet's waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea, including several approaching 100 feet. Scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon. Yet extreme surfers fly around the world trying to ride the ocean's ultimate challenges. The sport's pioneer, Laird Hamilton, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board waves of 70 and 80 feet. The exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves, from the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740 foot wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast. The book portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious. -- Publisher info.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-324).
  
• ISBN:9780767928847
  0767928849
  
• Contents:The grand empress
  Broken skulls
  Schrodinger's wave
  Karma, tiger sharks, and the golden carrot
  Wave good-bye
  Mavericks
  "I never saw anything like it"
  Killers
  Heavy weather
  Egypt
  Out, way out, on the Cortes bank
  The wild coast
  At the edge of the horizon.