Show SUBMARINE earthquake causes tidal wave wh ch came near sinking sh p new york A single great wave directly in front of her bow almost wrecked the norwegian tramp steam er joseph K cuneo on a cruise from port antonio jamaica which she has just finished we were in a perfectly calm sea aid vald captain aamot in quarantine on a sunshiny day when suddenly a aall all of water thirty feet high reared in front of our bow and pitched us up and up till I 1 thought we would never stop we almost turned a som ernault A second wave lifted us as high again but this time we kept level that was all except hundreds of dead fish floated on the surface as we steamed away he thinks the waves were caused by a submarine earthquake the ship was not harmed |