Giant Rogue waves

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http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170510-...ually-real

At 3am on 12 December 1978, a German cargo ship called The München sent out a mayday message from the mid-Atlantic. Despite extensive rescue efforts, she vanished never to be found, with the loss of 27 lives. A lifeboat was recovered. Despite having been stowed 66ft (20m) above the water line and showing no signs of having been purposefully lowered, the lifeboat seemed to have been hit by an extreme force.

There are many more rogue waves in the oceans than linear theory predicts

However, what really turned the field upside down was a wave that crashed into the Draupner oil platform off the coast of Norway shortly after 3.20pm on New Year's Day 1995. Hurricane winds were blowing and 39ft (12m) waves were hitting the rig, so the workers had been ordered indoors. No-one saw the wave, but it was recorded by a laser-based rangefinder and measured 85ft (26m) from trough to peak. The significant wave height was 35.4ft (10.8m). According to existing assumptions, such a wave was possible only once every 10,000 years.

LoL the youthful ignorance of children
such fun

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fyi for those unfamiliar with the ocean. the volume of water above those children...(aproximately) in weight could be aproximately 200 to 300 kilos depending on how the water falls and in which manner it falls in.
plenty enough to smash bones like small tree branches and crush internal organs as they get slammed to the concrete or the hand rail.