It was very fortuitous that our instruments were there to measure the wave in the first place and even more fortuitous that they survived the storm. |
Our results suggest that waves in excess of 90 feet are not rogue waves but actually are fairly common during hurricanes. |
So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave. |
We would see 50 or more waves. It turned out that during one of these periods of recording, the biggest crest-peak wave that we measured was 91 feet. |