The Wave

by Casey, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781410434036
• ISBN10: 1410434036
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-19
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan rogue waves over one hundred feet high. Scientists dismissed these stories until recently, when a British research vessel in the North Sea was trapped in a vortex of mammoth waves. As scientists scramble to understand these destructive monsters, others fly around the world in search of them. Susan Casey juxtaposes the exploits of the legendary Laird Hamilton and his fellow extreme surfers against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the annihilating power of waves. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 19
The Grand Empress	p. 49
Broken Skulls	p. 83
Schrödinger's Wave	p. 121
Karma, Tiger Sharks, and the Golden Carrot	p. 157
Wave Good-bye	p. 185
Mavericks	p. 219
"I Never Saw Anything Like It"	p. 259
Killers	p. 291
Heavy Weather	p. 327
Egypt	p. 365
Out, Way Out, on the Cortes Bank	p. 403
The Wild Coast	p. 435
At the Edge of the Horizon	p. 471
Epilogue	p. 497
Acknowledgments	p. 525
Selected Bibliography	p. 531
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