Draupner Monster Wave

Video reconstruction of the »New Years Wave«, from BBC documentary.

The »New Years Wave« or »Draupner Wave« was a Monster wave in the North Sea 1995. The Oil Rig is the Draupner Oil Rig, run by Strato.

this one is appr. 30m high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupner_wave

Also called »Freak Wave« or »Rogue wave«.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• monsterwave
• monster
• wave
• real
• north
• sea
• norway
• draupner

[tubewun]

this is not a reconstruction ! it is the only time a rouge wave has ever been caught on film !!

[perliva]

@tubewun can you proof that?

[perliva]

i'm pretty sure those freak waves have nothing to do with global warming. they've been around for ages i guess.

[sz1a]

f a k e

[perliva]

no. it's not a fake. it's reconstructed. which we already know. thanks.

[MissDisneyWorld]

this is worse than a horror movie for me. it's like, water-surrounded-oil-rig-o-pho­bia. i'm so terrified just watching this. goosebumps, people. goosebumps.

[crockofplot]

A few weeks back we hit 16m waves, that was bad enough, that is for sure a monster and some of the older platforms would simply not stand that sort of wave these days.

[Minurath]

@ghj9018 Ehm, that actually occurred in the North Sea..

[MCshlthead]

@hitheremarvin well said, every video it seems no matter what it is ends with a flame war underneath it its pretty damn pathetic, i wonder how many hundreds of years of human time has been wasted arguing over the internet.

[MCshlthead]

@MissDisneyWorld yea i have a terrible fear of waves but also a fascination by them, and i love to torture myself with wave videos, this shit scared the hell out of me

[MCshlthead]

@Symmetry44 the wave really did happen, this is a reconstruction

[Dragonfree97]

@MissDisneyWorld Lituya Bay, Alaska. 1956. Look it up. And then come back and tell me that this is a big wave