Eureka Reporter | 1903-12-18 | Page 7 | Height of Ocean Waves

HEIGHT OF OCEAN WAVES general misapprehend on AP aa to altheir enormous size A gale in the open ocea ocean labb up the waters into spray and produce waves which seem of prodigious height to unfortunates unfortunate sI in any small boat but as nature points out few of our im press lons are more misleading dashed from their crests into the troughs between we say the waves ran moun talus high but the highest wavea waves in british seas probably never exceed fifteen or twenty feet and the greatest height observed by scoresby in the waves of the atlantic was but forty three feet this Is of course the height of the wave from trough to crest and has nothing to do with the height to which spray water or stones may be hurled when the waves break on shore