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Ron Clay
Guest
There was a most interesting programme on TV last night about freak waves at sea.
As one who has done plenty of rock and surf fishing on the Cape and Natal coasts of South Africa - where many of the largest ocean wave have been recorded, I can tell you these waves are fact.
They used to tell you: NEVER turn your backl to the sea. Every year a number of anglers are drowned on the SA coast by a wave that comes out of nowhere and totally swamps an angler who might be standing 30 feet up on a rocky ledge. One club near Knysna used to have eye bolts concreted into the rocks so that you could harness yourself incase of a freak wave.
Of course certain scientists don't believe in such phenomena.
The problem I have with many scientists is that they spend too much time in cloistered environments in universities with nice comfortable little mathematical formulae instead of getting of their backs and into the real world.
They often don't believe the truth, even when it is staring them in the eyes.
How many of you have experienced freak waves at sea?
As one who has done plenty of rock and surf fishing on the Cape and Natal coasts of South Africa - where many of the largest ocean wave have been recorded, I can tell you these waves are fact.
They used to tell you: NEVER turn your backl to the sea. Every year a number of anglers are drowned on the SA coast by a wave that comes out of nowhere and totally swamps an angler who might be standing 30 feet up on a rocky ledge. One club near Knysna used to have eye bolts concreted into the rocks so that you could harness yourself incase of a freak wave.
Of course certain scientists don't believe in such phenomena.
The problem I have with many scientists is that they spend too much time in cloistered environments in universities with nice comfortable little mathematical formulae instead of getting of their backs and into the real world.
They often don't believe the truth, even when it is staring them in the eyes.
How many of you have experienced freak waves at sea?