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Published online 4 August 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050801-10
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Hurricanes whip up huge waves
40-metre monsters may account for mysteriously vanished ships.
Immense waves capable of sinking the largest ships might not be freaks of nature, but a common result of hurricanes.
That's the implication of new evidence that Hurricane Ivan, which whirled across the Gulf of Mexico last September, probably generated waves greater more that 40 metres high from crest to trough.
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