Extreme Waves (2006)

Chapter: Plates

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PLATE 1 Dan Moore surfs a 68-foot-high wave.

PLATE 2 Tsunami damage at Hilo, Hawaii, May 22, 1960.

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PLATE 3 Bobsled in the 1998 Sydney-Hobart race.

PLATE 4 Crew prepare to abandon dismasted and sinking Stand Aside .

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PLATE 5 (A) A brisk sail; (B) Wind-blown wave in a storm.

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PLATE 6 Tidal bore, Qiantang River, China.

PLATE 7 The wreck of the Memphis in Santo Domingo (1916).

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PLATE 8 U.S. Navy Indian Ocean wave forecast.

PLATE 9 Tsunami flooding at Laie Point, Hawaii, March 9, 1957.

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PLATE 10 Man caught in tsunami, Phuket, Thailand, December 26, 2004.

PLATE 11 Tsunami-damaged bungalow, Koh Phi Phi Island, December 26, 2005.

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PLATE 12 Wave victim on the Agulhas Coast, South Africa.

PLATE 13 Freighter in a typhoon, North Pacific.

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PLATE 14 Merchant vessel Winter Water fights heavy seas from tropical storm Georgette, Eastern Pacific Ocean, July 28, 1980.

PLATE 15 North Pacific Ocean storm waves as seen from M/V Nobel Star, winter, 1989.

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