Ronald Warwick, the ship's captain, described it as a "great wall of water, it looked as if we were going into the White Cliffs of Dover." In February 1995 the cruise liner "Queen Elizabeth II" met a 29-meter high (85 feet) rogue wave during a hurricane in the North Atlantic. Tales abound of ships and liners that survived such encounters. It simply gets put down to 'bad weather'." "But the cause is never studied to the same detail as an air crash. "Two large ships sink every week on average," Wolfgang Rosenthal, of the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht, Germany, said in a statement. They were meant to probe longstanding rumors - often dismissed by marine scientists as pure fantasy - that towering killer waves were responsible for the mysterious disappearance of ships. The satellites were deployed as part of a project called MaxWave set up by a consortium of 11 organizations from six EU countries in 2000. The ERS-2 satellite monitors the earth day and night under all weather conditions thanks to its powerful sharp-eyed, cloud-piercing radars. The findings are the result of data relayed by ESA's earth-scanning satellites, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which routinely monitor the oceans with their radar.
More than 200 massive cargo ships sank over the past two decades and some of them could have fallen victim to "freak" ocean waves as high as 50 meters (162 ft), the European Space Agency (ESA) said last week.
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