5 TERRIFYING Rogue Wave Encounters

Rogue waves. For centuries they’ve captured the public’s imagination and terrified sailors - they have become the stuff of legends. But for a long time, Rogue Waves couldn’t even be proven to exist, but then, in the modern age, ships began to encounter huge waves, seemingly out of nowhere at sea. Some of these encounters were deadly; and some even sank ships. Here are some terrifying true encounters with real life rogue waves! Featuring the RMS Lusitania, RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, RMS Queen Mary, SS Michelangelo and the MS Munich / MS München.

3D ship models used with permission, made by Lucas Gustaffson;

Written by Michael Brady
Editing assistance by Michael Keegan
Animation by Michael Brady in Unreal Engine 4

Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest machines and vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the R.101 airship to the battleship Bismarck. Join researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!

#ship #history #disaster #sinking #wave #tsunami #rogue wave #titanic #queen mary #engineering
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Lusitania
3:50 Queen Elizabeth 2
6:31 Queen Mary
10:58 Michelangelo
13:19 Munich /München

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[okankyoto]

One of the terrifying possible reasons why only in the 20th century did rogue waves start to have evidence found for them is theroized to be that- in the time before ships were made of steel, anyone who encountered them simply vanished

[ArtakaWorksStudio]

The fact that the Lusitania managed to survive getting dipped like that, with no casualties no less, is honestly a testament to these Gilded age beasts.

[sitara]

My dad was a merchant mariner for 39 years and the stories he tells me have made me terrified and enamored of the ocean to this day. He's had a few near-capsizings which constantly leave me wondering how I managed to be born. (In that scenario, it doesn't matter that he can't swim.) Keep up the good work; cheers from the USA.

[ZeldaTheSwordsman]

The Queen Mary's ability to _recover_ from the extreme rolls she was vulnerable to was absolutely insane.

[trapset]

I can't imagine the horror of the officer who saw the wave crash over the lusitainia with himself above the ship with his legs submerged.
Incredible.

[gowanhewlett]

Excellent presentation. Voice: every word audible. Pace: slow enough to hear and the ember facts. Great illustrations. Thankyou

[samhouston]

I'm happy more people are actually making content on rogue waves, even with the still limited understanding we have of them. It's something that should be discussed a lot more when it comes to ships at sea.

[jgrab]

I'm surprised the narrator doesn't mention that one of the soldiers on board the Queen Mary was Paul Gallico, a novelist who later wrote a book called The Poseidon Adventure. The book was based on the near-rollover incident, and when they made the movie a few years later, they used the Queen Mary, recently retired, as their ship.

[Unownshipper]

This is extremely impressive. You've done a marvelous job recreating these liners and the weather and lighting effects really set the atmosphere. I'd never heard of any of these incidents except for the Mary.

[VitZ]

"Don't worry, this ship is practically unsinkable!"
"Oh no. No no no no no. I'm not getting on that death trap."

[ChefDeRavioli]

Absolutely love the transition into 3D! Can’t wait to see this form of media grow and new animations of new ships

[twrecks]

The Lucy animation was amazing! I can easily imagine that the Edmund Fitzgerald encountered this very same thing, but unfortunately was unable to recover. So hard to imagine something that size just getting swallowed up whole like that... the scale involved is mind boggling. Love your channel, keep up the great work!

[You-can-fix-it-yourself]

I have a photo from my grandfather while on board the USS Wyoming, in the South China sea, during a typhoon. He was in the crow's nest and took a photo of a 130 ft wave coming at them from behind. I calculated the height using trigonometry, and the ship's dimensions. No one ever doubted his stories of life at sea after taking that photo.

[alanmacification]

As a kid, I like watching waves on Lake Ontario. They came in sets of three. Every once in a while, one of the three waves would seem to steal the energy of the others and rear up, then die down, and another would pop up nearby. It looked to me like the energy of the waves hitting the shore was being reflected back at an off angle and interacting with the incoming waves, creating peaks and troughs or canceling waves as it passed.

[eboyjim]

In 1985 a rogue/sneaker wave struck Fastnet Lighthouse off the coast of southern Ireland. It smashed the windows and broke the light 46 metres in the air.

I don't know how the hell it took until 1995 for us to realize they were real.

[dantheartisan]

Out of 60 years of sailing and motoring both salt and fresh waters, the most horrifying thin I've ever experienced was a roque wave on a perfectly calm lake. It wasn't the size, I've riden much, MUCH larger waves, it was the velocity of the continuous breaking of the wave. It was like a supernatural experience.

[jetsons]

I have heard that the original 1972 "The Poseidon Adventure" movie was based on the rogue wave that hit the Queen Mary. Parts of the movie were even filmed on board the Mary after she was bought by the city of Long Beach CA. Great watch, thanks to Mike for his time and

[CancelHappiness]

Those aren't mountains...they're waves.

[jameswhite]

I was on one of the ships caught by superstorm Sandy. Most of the ships survived, not all. It was something that really brought stories like these to reality. At the time, this was the largest cruise liner built - but we were dwarfed by waves. The 6th floor windows were smashed and that deck abandoned. I was on the 8th and it felt from that height like we were ants in a mountain range. When we rose up a wave - it seemed like we were climbing for minutes, then, the ship would teeter and come crashing down at free-fall speed on the other side. Nobody believed that even steel could withstand the pounding.
When disaster hits, and then, suddenly, the magic of engineering fails... the feeling of hopelessness must be overwhelming.