It was very fortuitous that our instruments were there to measure the wave in the first place and even more fortuitous that they survived the storm.

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We would see 50 or more waves. It turned out that during one of these periods of recording, the biggest crest-peak wave that we measured was 91 feet.

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So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

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