Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Map reveals secret of awesome Mavericks waves

Map reveals secret of awesome Mavericks waves - 19 April 2007 - New Scientist

This is the Geo-Physical explaination of "Kowabunga!" ......... ;-)

2 Comments:

Blogger Ga Mountain Man said...

Interesting that part of the measurement technique was bouncing light off the ocean floor. I'm not sure how that would work. Maybe some low frequency laser.

5:22 PM  
Blogger Deep Hal said...

Hrummph .. [clearing throat] ...

Quite Simple Young Man .... They took their measurements with shipboard multibeam echo sounders and aerial light detection bathymetric sensing instruments ...

.. At Least that's what they say in this link ... ;-)

http://www.mbnms-simon.org/other/moreLinks/whats_new_mavericks.php

Check out the map, with the arrows ..... That REALLY IS an amazing geological feature! ...

Found other link, in this article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_5684860

Use "ci_5684860" if it happens to get chopped after the underscore ... my first preview shows it chopped off ... hmmm

3:21 AM  

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