Vagues scélérates : quand les murs d’eau géants deviennent une réalité scientifique

Ajouté : 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Hold on tight. The swift waves of veritable walls of water that suddenly appear offshore have moved from legend to oceanography since the Dropner platform recorded a wave of about 26.5 m in 1995 and in 2020 a buoy near Vancouver Island measured a monster of 17.6 m, almost three times the local significant height. Giants born from non-linear focusing through modulational instability.

[00:00:29]phase interference and shearing of opposing currents such as the Goulstream to the point that their risk, once relegated to the folklore of captains, is now integrated into the calculation of the seakeeping of ships and operational forecasts thanks to the combined monitoring of satellite radars and buoy networks which map in real time its ephemeral levitatings.

[00:00:51]Yeah.