{"id":229545,"date":"2026-01-22T01:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/gigantic-wave-in-the-pacific-was-the-most-extreme-rogue-wave-on-record"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:36:38","slug":"gigantic-wave-in-the-pacific-was-the-most-extreme-rogue-wave-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/gigantic-wave-in-the-pacific-was-the-most-extreme-rogue-wave-on-record","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic Wave in The Pacific Was The Most Extreme \u2018Rogue Wave\u2019 on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gigantic-wave-in-the-pacific-was-the-most-extreme-rogue-wave-on-record.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later, the four-story wall of water was confirmed to be the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Such an extraordinary event is thought to happen only once every 1,300 years. And if the buoy hadn\u2019t been taken for a ride, we might never have known it had occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high. A few years later, the four-story wall of water was confirmed to be the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded. Such an extraordinary event is thought to happen only once every 1,300 years. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}