I always find it amusing how little we know about most of our planet. Then I get sad at the vast amount of scientists losing their jobs or having to work for large-company-for-profit since they can't get enough funding to research what they want.
Maybe we need to start getting scientists to use Kickstarter? "For $400,000 I can make some serious headway into rogue wave research and will publish all of my data in real time!" I'd toss a couple hundred at projects like this.
On a side note we need a website and very simple API for scientists to publish research in real time... with a not-horrible interface like most science websites have.
Indeed, this does cover the first part, they need to work on getting their name out there cause I've never seen this website before... Now for the 2nd part!
No - but it seems like that figure is wrong on two counts - greater than the actual number of ships of that size lost in that timeframe (142), and those ships weren't sunk by rogue waves.
This article is from 2004. For more information on the project as well as the ugliest site you could possibly imagine, visit http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/
Edit: Apparently parts of their server have sunk as well.
Statistics about ship losses in this article are utterly wrong. The Wikipedia article below explicitly calls out the press release this article appears to be based upon.
Maybe we need to start getting scientists to use Kickstarter? "For $400,000 I can make some serious headway into rogue wave research and will publish all of my data in real time!" I'd toss a couple hundred at projects like this.
On a side note we need a website and very simple API for scientists to publish research in real time... with a not-horrible interface like most science websites have.