The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and ...

For equity, categories are divided into waves ... Ocean to Portugal. In 2017, Rodrigo Koxa, age 38, flew into the history ...

The most powerful waves were discovered in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, but the North Atlantic Ocean experienced the highest increase in wave energy over the past 40 years compared ...

Men have always been fascinated, and sometimes awed, by the rhythmic motions of the sea's surface. A century of observation and experiment has revealed much about how these waves are generated and ...

Scientists have discovered that ocean waves may become far more extreme and complex than previously imagined. The new study, published in Nature today, reveals that under specific conditions, where ...

Like ocean waves, these ripples are transverse waves because the surface of the water moves up and down, at 90° to the direction that the wave is travelling. Water waves can reflect or ‘bounce ...

The waves can knock people down and sweep them into the cold Pacific Ocean waters with little advance notice. The cold, rough waters can cause hypothermia and even drowning. Sneaker waves can also ...