Rouge Wave, 80 feet high like a monolith of tortured water falling over your ship, a crumbling mountain of surf turning everything around you to splinters.
I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. I’ve experienced the ocean in all its moods. I had not encountered a wave so gigantic. It was a mighty upheaval of the ocean, a thing quite apart from the big white-capped seas that had been our tireless enemies for many days.
Then came a moment of suspense that seemed drawn out into hours. White surged the foam of the breaking sea around us. We felt our boat lifted and flung forward like a cork in breaking surf. We were in a seething chaos of tortured water and our ship shuddered under the blow.
Rouge Wave, 80 feet high like a monolith of tortured water falling over your ship, a crumbling mountain of surf turning everything around you to splinters.
I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. I’ve experienced the ocean in all its moods. I had not encountered a wave so gigantic. It was a mighty upheaval of the ocean, a thing quite apart from the big white-capped seas that had been our tireless enemies for many days.
Then came a moment of suspense that seemed drawn out into hours. White surged the foam of the breaking sea around us. We felt our boat lifted and flung forward like a cork in breaking surf. We were in a seething chaos of tortured water and our ship shuddered under the blow.
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