Skippers beware: Tsunamis in the North Atlantic

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by micky1up

the problem with this post is tsunamis very rarely damage ships in open ocean they only get distructive when they approach land thats when they grow in size and power but i take it geography wasnt your strong point

Thanks for your kind heads-up, but as a matter of fact I knew that. but the boring truth of ships at high sees seeing nothing would not have made for such a sensational headline.

And to be even more precise than your "correction", it is not the nearness of land being the critical factor, but the rise of the sub-oceanic ground. The steeper it is, the closer to the landmass a tsnunami on the surface becomes visible.

Next time try to make your point in a less offensive way (that geography part). Opposite to what you may have been told, it's not so difficult, you know.