Tom and Pam Trusdale were enjoying a bucket list trip to Antarctica, until their trip of a lifetime turned into a deadly disaster. "It was going real smoothly, and we were only anticipating nothing ...

No one knows what happened to the MS München. Yet clues suggest the 850-foot vessel was struck by a titanic force that left it without power or propulsion in the North Atlantic. A faint distress call ...

On a stormy night in November 1975, a massive freighter vanished beneath the waves of the Great Lakes - taking all 29 crew ...

Once thought to be sailors’ myths, rogue waves gained credibility after a towering 80-foot wall of water struck the Draupner oil platform in 1995. New research shows that these extreme waves don’t ...

The late, great David Foster Wallace once wrote a piece for Harper’s magazine, in which he set sail on a luxury cruise. What followed was a meticulous, and delightfully comical, depiction of the ...

Passengers aboard Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas got an unexpected jolt recently when a rogue wave struck the cruise ship on its return to Baltimore from Bermuda. The incident caused the ship to ...

We finally know the forces behind an 80-foot-tall wall of water that rocked the North Sea in 1995. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 5, 2025 12:30 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Rogue waves have captivated the attention of both seafarers and scientists for decades. These are giant, isolated waves that appear suddenly in the open ocean. These puzzling giants are brief, ...