New research out of the University of Oxford in England is giving weight to a theory held by some mariners in the province: that rogue waves come with no warning, and are often preceded by much smaller waves.
"If you do have a very large wave and it's in deep water, what you're not going to get is the waves building up until you get your really large [wave]," said Thomas Adcock, a professor with the department of engineering.
Adcock said large, freak waves are unpredictable.
"You're going to get a series of relatively small waves and then you're going to get the really large one," he said.
"Then after that, you might get one that's … rather smaller again, and then you're back to the random variation of things."
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