Sea can cause individual (unexpected) rogue waves much higher than normal. Most waves are less than high and it is not unusual for strong storms to double or triple that height; offshore construction such as wind farms and oil platforms use metocean statistics from measurements in computing the wave forces (due to for instance the hundred-year wave) they are designed against. Rogue waves, however, have been documented at heights above . The top of a wave is known as the crest, the lowest point between waves is the trough and the distance between the crests is the wavelength. The wave is
The Sound of Sunbathing and "Big Hits, Skinny Ties: New Wave in the U.K". "Trouser Press" praised the Sinceros for creating "two great tracks — a quirky bit of silliness called 'Take Me to Your Leader' and a Joe Jackson soundalike, 'Little White Lie'..." but expressed little enthusiasm for the album as a whole, saying that other than those two songs, "it's an amiable pop record with little character". The Sound of Sunbathing The Sound of Sunbathing is the debut album from The Sinceros, a new wave and power pop band from England. The album, with initial copies pressed on orange vinyl, was released