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The Bay of Biscay (/ ˈ b ɪ s k eɪ,-k i / BISS-kay, -kee) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Point Penmarc'h to the Spanish border, and along the northern coast of Spain, extending westward to Cape Ortegal .
Brittany Ferries' MV Pont-Aven was struck by a wave estimated at between 40 and 50 feet (12 and 15 m) in height during a Force 9 gale in the Bay of Biscay on 21 May 2006. On 1 February 2007, Holland America 's cruise ship MS Prinsendam was hit by two 12-meter (39 ft) tall rogue waves near Cape Horn .
However, what caught the attention of the scientific community was the digital measurement of a rogue wave at the Draupner platform in the North Sea on January 1, 1995; called the "Draupner wave", it had a recorded maximum wave height of 25.6 m (84 ft) and peak elevation of 18.5 m (61 ft). During that event, minor damage was inflicted on the ...
English: Bathymetric map in English of the Celtic Sea and the Bay of Biscay. Limits of the seas as specified by the International Hydrographic Organization. Note: the background map is a raster image embedded in the SVG file.
The Celtic Sea [a] is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of Ireland bounded to the north by Saint George's Channel; [1] other limits include the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay, as well as adjacent portions of Wales, Cornwall, parts of Devon and Brittany.
Bay – generic term; though most features with "Bay" in the name are small, some are very large; Gulf – a very large bay, often a top-level division of an ocean or sea; Fjord – a long bay with steep sides, typically formed by a glacier; Bight – a bay that is typically shallower than a sound
Carol Lake feared for worst when Spirit of Discovery ship was hit by storm in Bay of Biscay Terrified cruise passenger feared she would die in ‘horror’ storm – so she turned on Strictly Skip ...
Depending on context, wave height may be defined in different ways: For a sine wave, the wave height H is twice the amplitude (i.e., the peak-to-peak amplitude): [1] =.; For a periodic wave, it is simply the difference between the maximum and minimum of the surface elevation z = η(x – c p t): [1] = {()} {()}, with c p the phase speed (or propagation speed) of the wave.