Dorian kicks up more than one monster wave near Port aux Basques

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Dorian kicks up more than one monster wave near Port aux Basques

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/dorian-large-rogue-wave-1.5277354

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As post-tropical storm Dorian moves its way north of Newfoundland and Labrador data is rolling in on how powerful the storm really was.

According to the Washington Post, which tracked the storm north of the United States, a Marine Institute-owned buoy picked up a massive rogue wave that topped 100 feet, just over 30 metres, roughly 2.4 kilometres off of the coast of Port aux Basques. That's about the equivalent of an eight-storey building.

"It measures the acceleration and deceleration of the buoy as it travels up and down on the waves, and from that does a calibration of what the wave height might be," said Bill Carter, director with the Centre for Applied Ocean Technology, the team responsible for the equipment which picked up the 30-metre monster.

But more than that, Carter said there were many big recordings on Sunday, several of which broke 25 metres and many more which broke 20 metres in height.  



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