Three 26 foot waves crashed in to a cruise ship on Wednesday off the Mediterranean coast of Spain and many people are classifying these waves as rogue waves. Two passengers were killed, and a third seriously injured in the incident, which shattered plate-glass windows at the bow of the vessel.Rogues come about in different ways but are almost always generated by storm-related winds. "The waves in the area measured about five meters on average," according to data collected by a Spanish weather buoy just before the accident, Jean-Michel Lefevre said."Under those conditions we would expect eight-metre waves every 15 minutes." Some scientists think that 1 in every 3000
waves is a rogue wave.
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