100-foot wave recorded off the coast of Newfoundland during Dorian
Sep 10, 2019 | 2:11 PM
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A team at Memorial University says it recorded a 100-foot wave off the southwestern coast of Newfoundland during the tail end of post-tropical storm Dorian.
Bill Carter, director of the Marine Institute’s Centre for Applied Ocean Technology, said the 30.2-metre wave was detected at about 2 a.m. on Sunday by an oceanographic buoy about 2.5 kilometres off the coast of Port aux Basques.
Carter says several other large waves of between 20 and 25 metres were also recorded as the former hurricane left the area.
While he’s not an oceanographer, Carter says he believes some combination of low pressure, wind, proximity to shore and the tides combined to create what he calls perfect conditions for a large wave.
