The Draupner New Year Event made clear that steep breaking waves of 25m size do occur in open ocean with a frequency of about 4 times a year in almost any location.
What was considered a seamen legend before is now documented.
Many structures are designed for a much modest design wave height.
Their survival in open ocean now must be considered a merley "lucky cooincidence" not having encountered such waves yet.
Unexplained ship disappearance with no glue and SOS call are seen in a new light now...
Research has confirmed that waves of up to 35 meters (115 ft) in height are much more common than mathematical probability theory would predict using a Rayleigh distribution of wave heights.[citation needed] In fact, they seem to occur in all of the world's oceans many times every year. This has caused a re-examination of the reasons for their existence, as well as reconsideration of the implications for ocean-going ship design.
With Draupner Waves first time dedected by science and a Tsunami striking Japan the perception of worst case scenarios is changing for naval engineering. The task of settlement on the ocean in the sense of ocean colonization needs to take that into account.
The Draupner new year wave was the first registered freak wave (rogue wave) registered in history. It came out of nothing in a 12m wave ambient and had some 25m. The Draupner wave or New Year's wave was the first rogue wave to be detected by a measuring instrument, occurring at the Draupner platform in...
The Draupner New Year Event made clear that steep breaking waves of 25m size do occur in open ocean with a frequency of about 4 times a year in almost any location. What was considered a seamen legend before is now documented. Many structures are designed for a much modest design wave height. Their su...
The nonlinear wave equation, draupner, impact on marine engineering, submarine yacht. Since the Draupner Wave changed the marine engineering paradigma and we know now that Freak Waves of 30m breaking over ships in open ocean do exist, and satellite radar searches turned up a dozend of them in the f...
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