I gave away my Roomba because it was always getting caught under the furniture and eating my area rugs. Now that I have hard floors, if they need some attention between visits from the cleaners, I open up the back door and fire up the leaf blower.
What a lovely idea....BUT... Cliffs exist because of erosion. The only way something that vertical is there in the first place is because it's constantly crumbling - otherwise it'd be a beach or a swamp or something gentler. The media are full of stories of houses falling into the sea because of costal erosion...and this looks like another, just waiting to happen.
From what I remember, the Ocean Ranger wasn't involved in a situation with a rogue wave, but in a chain of unfortunate competence/training failures, including the water coming in a port hole that should have had a protective plate installed, but did not at the time. Looking it up, the place of ingress of water was only about 8m above sea level, and the Grand Banks gets seas of that size quite regularly, with 15+ m seas not unheard of (e.g. at the time of the incident...). Otherwise it was rated for waves much larger than that which could even handle a wave freakishly over the significant wave height in storms.
These days there are a lot of statistics on typical wave height for different coastlines and chances of even rogue waves, and it is something that can be evaluated. 20 m is pretty high, and shallow, coastal areas tend to have a deficit of extremely high waves compared to open ocean. But it could come down to the particular location, as there are plenty that have never seen anything close to waves big enough to hit that even in strong hurricanes.
In Portugal we had a corpse crowned queen! Inês de Castro was Pedro the first's girlfriend and he wanted to marry her, make her princess and later queen but his father didn't approve of the relationship so he ordered her murder. Apparently Pedro found all but one of the murderers and killed them gruesomely and later, as he was already king he got her exhumed, dressed her in full queen attire and had all the courtspeople kiss the queen's hand as if she was a "regular" living one.
True! You wouldn't believe how many otherwise interesting videos I've passed on posting because of the videographer's language. I'm no prude, but there is a tipping point when it comes to sharing.
Incredibly well filmed. I hope other photographers are paying attention. Correct orientation, steady camera, and not even a single dumb comment in the whole video.
First, he's a guy. Those things he did would have been easier to take if he had been a young, attractive girl. Second, he didn't sing. A nice song (especially sung by a young, attractive girl) makes all kinds of unusual behavior more tolerable. Third. Those eyes! He has the eyes of a psychopathic killer! He could be eating a hot dog, and it would look like murder.
Cliffs exist because of erosion. The only way something that vertical is there in the first place is because it's constantly crumbling - otherwise it'd be a beach or a swamp or something gentler.
The media are full of stories of houses falling into the sea because of costal erosion...and this looks like another, just waiting to happen.
These days there are a lot of statistics on typical wave height for different coastlines and chances of even rogue waves, and it is something that can be evaluated. 20 m is pretty high, and shallow, coastal areas tend to have a deficit of extremely high waves compared to open ocean. But it could come down to the particular location, as there are plenty that have never seen anything close to waves big enough to hit that even in strong hurricanes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C3%AAs_de_Castro
You're welcome Alan!
Second, he didn't sing. A nice song (especially sung by a young, attractive girl) makes all kinds of unusual behavior more tolerable.
Third. Those eyes! He has the eyes of a psychopathic killer! He could be eating a hot dog, and it would look like murder.