A possible rogue wave sent headlines around the world last week after it broke windows on a cruise ship off the coast of Argentina, killing a woman and injuring four others. Such freak accidents may ...

Monstrous and deadly waves that arrive without warning have been recounted in fishing and sailing lore for more than a century. These so-called "rogue" or "freak" waves have been seen from cruise ...

Over the weekend, yet another tragedy struck the Canary Islands. A group of tourists were swimming in Los Gigantes – a natural pool nestled in the cliffside against the open ocean in Puerto de ...

The incident happened at Los Gigantes natural pool in Tenerife’s Puerto de Santiago. Officials had warned against people ...

ALEXIS DELELISI/AFP / Getty Images Huge, freak waves that seem to come out of nowhere and endanger ships at sea could someday be predicted with enough advance warning to let sailors get ready. That's ...

At 3:00 p.m. on New Year's Day in 1995, work stopped on the deck of the Norwegian Draupner oil platform, which stood isolated out in the middle of the tempestuous North Sea. The wind had grown too ...

Also known as freak or killer waves, rogue waves are those that pop up suddenly as a great deal larger than others in a given set, posing serious danger to any ships or infrastructure unfortunate ...

The open ocean is daunting enough when it's relatively calm, but add in the existence of huge, seemingly randomly occurring walls of water, and it becomes downright terrifying. Now, researchers at MIT ...

Tom and Pam Trusdale were enjoying a bucket list trip to Antarctica, until their trip of a lifetime turned into a deadly disaster. "It was going real smoothly, and we were only anticipating nothing ...

An incredible video has captured the terrifying moment a rogue wave crashed into Ventura, California, on Thursday, sending onlookers scrambling and causing injuries to eight people, according to FOX ...

If you think a “rogue wave” sounds like oceanographic mischief, then you'd be right: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), rogue waves are “large, unexpected and ...

A rogue wave measuring 58 feet (17.6 meters) tall was recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island, breaking the record for proportionality at three times the size of surrounding waves. “Only a few ...