Dramatic footage captured the raw power of the season's first major South Pacific swell. And there’s more on the way.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A possible rogue wave sent headlines around the world last week after it broke windows on a cruise ship off the coast of Argentina ...

We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters*. Rogue ...

A group set out on a dream fishing trip, expecting calm seas after the storm passed. Instead, a sudden rogue wave slammed into the boat, flipping it in seconds and throwing men into the ocean at night ...

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 ...

In maritime lore, the existence of monstrous rogue waves has long been regarded as the stuff of myth. Yet, these giant waves, capable of tearing ships asunder and wreaking havoc on oil rigs, are not ...

Stand by the shore and watch the waves roll in, and you’ll notice that most come in at roughly the same size. There’s a little variation, but the overwhelming majority don’t stand out from the crowd.

A size comparison of the "Draupner Wave" to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another. On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil ...