The 342-foot cruise ship had been steaming through Drake Passage — a 600-mile channel between Antarctica and the Southernmost ...

Terrifying footage captured the moment a cruise ship hit 40ft waves while travelling through one of the most dangerous sea ...

Guests were crossing the Drake Passage at the time, a notoriously treacherous waterway between Antarctica and South America.

Hurricane season is just two months away, and early indications suggest it might not be as hyperactive as last year’s. Still, ...

But very large storms with high, sustained winds can generate waves with periods of more than 20 seconds. These waves travel much faster, over 100km per hour in the open ocean, and their energy ...

The tumultuous ocean conditions come as a "large ... Brian Nieuwenhuis told Newsweek that the waves are resulting from an offshore storm equipped with storm-force winds. "This is not a tropical ...

Ocean and the Environment. After a really big storm like Sandy “it looks like somebody attacked the [sea] floor with ill ...

Clusters of thunderstorms can develop over the ocean when water temperatures exceed 80 degrees Fahrenheit. If conditions are right, the clusters swirl into a storm known as a tropical wave or ...

As the name implies, these larger waves can sneak up on unsuspecting beachgoers since they randomly occur amid smaller waves ...