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One can only imagine
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One can only imagine

"a large wave crashing on the side of a road"

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Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 12, 2005 09:45PM

Stiffler you is mad!!!
Anthony Report This Comment
Date: January 12, 2005 09:48PM

Yeah this has been going around claiming to be genuine. I think it's a Photoshop job. You can see the reflection of a non-existant green mountain on the wave.
Sokratesz Report This Comment
Date: January 12, 2005 09:49PM

the whole thing is crap. waves dont get over 30 meters of height (but they are still very very destructive then). this is just sensation-seeking, stupid image.
Anthony Report This Comment
Date: January 12, 2005 10:01PM

yeah there are freak waves out in the ocean that are 30 meters high. On average, 2 vessels exceeding 200 meters in length are mysteriously sunk every week, and scientist believe they are swamped by single massive waves 30 meters high. Kind of a scary thought if you worked on an ocean freighter.
me_too Report This Comment
Date: January 12, 2005 11:58PM

No matter what though...this photo even LOOKS fake!
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 13, 2005 12:18AM

Watch the Discovery channel dumb asses,there have been waves 5o meters high due to massive land slides in to bodies of water in Washington state and Alaska.It is a possibility,one in our near future.
Stiffler Report This Comment
Date: January 13, 2005 12:18AM

I was kinda wondering about this shot. A buddy of mine e-mailed it to me today. At first glance I thought holy shit but I figured I'd I stick it on here and I might find out what the real deal is.

By the way my dad was in the Dutch merchant navy years ago and he's spun me some pretty good yarns about storms he's been in out on the oceans. The ship he was on was about three football fields long and one storm he said you couldn't see anywhere around you because the waves were so big. He pretty much thought he was a gonner. He said they normally travelled about 300 miles per day but for three days straight they went 20 miles back. I think the difference being though is that waves don't break out in the open water like they do on shore so they don't seem as big.
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 13, 2005 12:23AM

photoshop but realistic
knockemdead Report This Comment
Date: January 13, 2005 01:22AM

Of course its a fake pic.
Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: January 13, 2005 05:18AM

mabey thats why its named we can only imagine
Anonymouse Report This Comment
Date: January 14, 2005 01:22AM

I saw, on Discovery channel I think, a show about those mystery waves that swallow ships. They think that they are generated by giant gas bubbles emerging from the ocean floor. If a ship is close enough, they can drop into the "hole" created by the gas bubble (at least a little bit), and then the resulting waves from the bubble swamp the decks and suck the boat down. Huge boats gone in like 10 seconds. They believe that these gas bubbles are the source of Bermuda Triangle disappearances, and they think they've found evidence on the sea floor of those gas eruptions.

If Anthony is right that there are 30m waves in the open ocean, then those waves are going to be at least twice as large if they reach shore with similar power.