The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) - Hardcover

Casey, Susan

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9781410434036: The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)

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ISBN 10: 1410434036 ISBN 13: 9781410434036

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2011

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The have long been mariners' tales of 100-foot rogue waves - gargantuan monsters that sink super-tankers in the blink of an eye.

But waves that high violate the laws of physics, so science has dismissed them as myth. Until now.

In February 2000 the research ship, RRS Discovery, was trapped by a vortex of mammoth waves in the North Atlantic. Amazingly the ship survived and its state-of-the-art equipment registered waves nearing 100-feet. Something scary is brewing in the planet's waters. And with 72% of earth covered by sea, this is serious business.

Cut to Maui, Hawaii, a surf mecca where a 100-foot wave is seen as the ultimate challenge. Casey follows extreme surfing legend, Laird Hamilton, and his unique tribe as they hunt down this grail.

The action zips from Lloyds of London to rusty oil rigs, tropical Tahitian surf shacks to supercomputer data labs, as Casey juxtaposes the exploits of big-wave surfers against scientists' urgent efforts to predict devastating rogue waves.

Like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, The Wave is an extraordinary story about man confronting nature at its most ferocious.

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Review:

`Sensational. Looks at science...behind waves, but also celebrates the bravery and artistry of Laird Hamilton and friends' --Sunday Times Magazine

`Her depiction of places, scenes and action is dazzling and dynamic, representing the fierce and energetic motion of the waves.'
--The Big Issue North

`a sparkling, salty book' --Sunday Times

"enthralling story of a group ... [in] pursuit of some of the most mesmerizing - and terrifying - freaks of nature ever seen."
--Sunday Times, Culture

'...arguably the best book yet written about big wave surfing...The Wave is a remarkable odyssey around the extremes of the ocean.' --TLS, Alex Wade

Sensational. Looks at science...behind waves, but also celebrates the bravery and artistry of Laird Hamilton and friends --Sunday Times Magazine

Her depiction of places, scenes and action is dazzling and dynamic, representing the fierce and energetic motion of the waves. --The Big Issue North

a sparkling, salty book --Sunday Times

enthralling story of a group ... [in] pursuit of some of the most mesmerizing - and terrifying - freaks of nature ever seen. --Sunday Times, Culture

...arguably the best book yet written about big wave surfing...The Wave is a remarkable odyssey around the extremes of the ocean --TLS

Book Description:

Colossal rogue waves are nature's most deadly new phenomena - meet the obsessed super surfers and sceintists who dare to cross their path.

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