looks to be medium to large class oil tanker

http://www.break.com/index/ship_in_rough_water.html

those aren't rogue waves...that was how it was the whole time


this is some Edmunds Fitzgerald type stuff right here......

 

Time to break out the jetski. I'd be all over that!

 

you couldnt pay me enough to go out in seas like that. Screw deadliest catch. I'll pay top dollar for my crab and lobster.

 

 

I've seen much larger waves 2-3 times as big first hand while I was in the Navy. The ship is much smaller than it looks making the waves look bigger.

 

It's a small bulk carrier, around 270-300 ft, I estimate height of eye at around 40 ft. Beaufort scale 10-11, combined seas/swells 32-38 ft. They are running down-sea which does make the waves appear smaller. It's generally the best point of ride, unless you broach-to, then you are dead. What is really scary, is doing that crap at night.

I deployed/recovered the instrument which measured the largest wave ever recorded by calibrated instrumentation (91 ft), during hurricane Ivan.
Feel free to post up all the 'sea stories' and speculation you want to.

 

who do you think you are anyway!?!?

 

El Capitan.

RXDI, why not water ski behind that thing?

 

thats a big boat =op

 

Pretty good surfing I would think