The ocean is a frightening place. There, I said it. We all know it. Why pretend anymore? This isn't hard. It's a massive body of poisonous opaque water filled with things that want to eat you.
And also stuff like this:
A four-story-tall rogue wave that briefly reared up in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada in 2020 was the "most extreme" version of the freaky phenomenon ever recorded, scientists now say.
Rogue waves, also known as freak or killer waves, are massive waves that appear in the open ocean seemingly from nowhere.
The rogue wave was detected on Nov. 17, 2020, around 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) off the coast of Ucluelet on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, by an oceanic buoy belonging to Canadian-based research company MarineLabs. Now, in a new study published online Feb. 2 in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists have revealed that the Ucluelet wave was around 58 feet (17.6 meters) tall, making it around three times higher than surrounding waves. Rogue waves this much larger than surrounding swells are a "once in a millennium" occurrence, the researchers said in a statement.
Imagine how it must have felt reading that buoy report:
Seriously, add to the list of terrifying things about the ocean this no-brainer: It is always in motion and can sometimes randomly grow to unthinkable heights and destroy you without breaking a sweat.
If God had meant for us to be in the water He'd have given us gills and flippers. I'll stay on land, thank you very much!
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