Pelinovsky E., Kharif C. Extreme Ocean Waves 2ed 2016

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Reports of extreme wave events in seas and oceans come about almost each week. Extreme water waves investigated in this book involve mainly rogue waves, but tsunami waves and storm waves are also considered. Several catalogues of extreme events like rogue waves observed in the World Ocean have been recently published.1 For instance, during 2006–2010, 106 events can be classified as anomalous high short-lived waves. They occurred in deep and shallow waters, and also on the coast. Perhaps, one of the last events occurred on February 17, 2014 with ship “Marco Polo” on its route from the Azores to its home port in Tilbury, England, and it was carrying 735 passengers and 349 crew. A large wave hit the side of the ship between 1 and 2 p.m. local time at adverse sea conditions and killed one passenger
and injured the second one