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 Crests charted with their first release, "Sweetest One", on Joyce Records. After recording two more singles for Joyce Records, Patricia Vandross left The Crests in 1958 to finish her education. Their next single after "16 Candles" on COED Records was "Six Nights A Week" which hit #28 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 Charts and #17 on the R&B. Their next release "Flower Of Love" was bland compared to other Crests cuts and attained only a six-week run-up to #79. From 1958 to 1960 the group was almost always on the road. In the late 1950s, The Crests performed on several national