The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean Audiobook (Free)

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing reserve about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves as well as the surfers who seek them out.

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until lately scientists dis­missed these stories-waves that high would seem to violate the laws and regulations of physics. However in recent decades, as a startling quantity of boats vanished and brand-new evidence has emerged, oceanographers noticed something about The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Sea scary was producing in the planet’s waters. They discovered their proof in Feb 2000, whenever a English analysis vessel was trapped within a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea-including several that contacted 100 feet.

Mainly because scientists scramble to comprehend this trend, others look at the huge waves as the best challenge. They are severe surfers who soar all over the world trying to ride the ocean’s most harmful monsters. The pioneer of extreme surfing may be the legendary Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to panel suicidally huge waves of 70 and 80 foot. Casey follows this original tribe of peo­ple as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100­-foot wave.

Within this mesmerizing account, the exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists’ urgent attempts to understand the destructive forces of waves-from the tsunami that destroyed 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 towards the 1,740-foot-wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast.

Like Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, The Wave brilliantly portrays humans confronting character at its most ferocious.