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Published online 17 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060313-15
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Ship endures record-breaking waves
Storm shows extreme seas may be more common than thought.
On the dark and stormy night of 8 February 2000, you wouldn't want to have been on board the Discovery, a British oceanographic research ship.
Out in the North Atlantic, 250 km west of Scotland and close to the tiny island of Rockall, the ship was forced to sit through what researchers think are the biggest waves ever directly recorded in the open ocean.
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