New Hurricane Ivan Study Shows It Created 90ft+ Waves!

[Stratosphere747]

I've posted this link before, along with the *disclaimer* of language that some may find inappropriate at the end of the video...

These are what 50-80ft waves look like in the open ocean....

http://www.surfline.com/video/vids/2002 ... tes_wm.cfm

[EDR1222]

I've posted this link before, along with the *disclaimer* of language that some may find inappropriate at the end of the video...

These are what 50-80ft waves look like in the open ocean....

http://www.surfline.com/video/vids/2002 ... tes_wm.cfm

Although those are out in the middle of the ocean, Cortez Bank is an underwater sea mountain about 100 miles off the coast of San Diego where the ocean floor comes to within a few feet of the surface at the highest point, causing the waves to break. 50-80 foot waves would generally not break in deep offshore waters like that. Still impressive though!

[Stratosphere747]

I've posted this link before, along with the *disclaimer* of language that some may find inappropriate at the end of the video...

These are what 50-80ft waves look like in the open ocean....

http://www.surfline.com/video/vids/2002 ... tes_wm.cfm

Although those are out in the middle of the ocean, Cortez Bank is an underwater sea mountain where the ocean floor comes to within a few feet of the surface at the highest point, causing the waves to break. 50-80 foot waves would generally not break in deep offshore waters like that. Still impressive though!

Agree Ed...But it gives a idea of what wave heights such as these might just look like...

Too many people get caught up in the "height" of a wave and get confused IMO...

[Hurrilurker]

These are what 50-80ft waves look like in the open ocean....

Based on the heights of the humans in the video being 6', these waves look more like only 30'-40' maximum to me...maybe 45' counting frothy crest. "Only" 40', yeah. Of course the shelf may be disguising the true through depth of the wave.

[HurryKane]

80-90 foot waves are not that unbelievable in open water.

Then what are 80-90 foot waves called then, tidal waves by a HURRICANE!!! Unbelivable so I choose not to bileve. Well if it had 80-90 foot waves wouldn't that make it the strongest hurricane ever because if gillbert had a minimum recorded central pressure of 888 millibars and I'm not sure what Ivan had. whouldn't that meant that possibly if Ivan had 80-90 foot waves then Gillbert would have even bigger waves. Like 120-130 foot waves. What were the recorded waves for gillbert???

No, they are not called tidal waves. They're just waves, very large ones, in the open water, that do not break on shore at such heights. Like dhweather I know some of those folks who present this study and they're not yanking our collective chains.

As to your 'unbelievable so I choose not to believe' statement...perhaps such a rush to judgement is not wise until you've researched things further?

[Jim Cantore]

the perfect storm was not comarable to Ivan cause they are two completely diffrent things

The perfect storm was a Hyrbid a fluke a "freak of nature" a one of a kind storm a HUGE storm and a powerful one that caused damage from newfoundland to porto rico with 100 foot waves offshore

Ivan was an EXREMELY powerful hurricane and could kick up waves nearly as high but over not as wide of an area

[tropicana]

I would have passed out with complete fright if I just saw even one 90 foot wave.

-justin-

[Downdraft]

Hurricanes do not cause tsunami waves. Tsunami's are generated by seismic events such as underwater earthquakes or landslides. A tsunami is not an open wave but rather an energy pulse. Waves generated by hurricanes do not travel at 400 to 500 mph like tsunamis nor can they perpetuate themselves thousands of miles from the generating source.

[EDR1222]

These are what 50-80ft waves look like in the open ocean....

Based on the heights of the humans in the video being 6', these waves look more like only 30'-40' maximum to me...maybe 45' counting frothy crest. "Only" 40', yeah. Of course the shelf may be disguising the true through depth of the wave.

The surfing event that was held there ended up producing the largest wave ridden by a surfer for that year. He was awarded a prize for riding a wave determined by experts to be 66 feet in height. I am not sure how they determined that height, but it was published in surfer magazine.