Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100305:03:51:00
The form of white water and hits the boat, sets it back and can literal literally situation it, break it. >> if the boat is to the side of a breaking wave then it can be broken? >> that's right. a swell, it's no problem. so waves break. when waves break depends on their steepness. that's effected by a current. if waves are going into an oncoming current it shortens the wavelength, makes the wave steeper and starts to break. the rogue waves, not that there are more rogue waves there, there are more breaking waves in these areas. >> we also saw i guess it was a rogue wave or big waves in san fra...