It would have been the ride of a lifetime for any nearby Long Beach surfers—or maybe their last wave ever. A monster so-called rogue wave recorded off Vancouver Island measured 17.6 metres (58 ...

Big waves from hurricanes like Irene in 2011 or Superstorm Sandy last October or even nor’easters like one that lingered in Delaware last week erode shorelines and the beach and dunes. But it turns ...

Until 1995, most scientists dismissed sudden, unexpected swells known as rogue waves as maritime myth. But on New Year’s Day of that year, a monitoring platform off Norway’s coast recorded a ...