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From Susan Casey, bestselling writer of The Devil's Tooth, an amazing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.For generations, mariners have spun stories of gargantuan waves, 100-foot high or taller. Until recently scientists dis overlooked these testimonies - waves that high would seem to violate the regulations of physics. But in recent ages, as a startling amount of ships vanished and new proof has surfaced, oceanographers understood something scary was brewing in the planet's waters. They found their evidence in Feb 2000, when a British isles research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea - including several that contacted 100 feet. As scientists scramble to comprehend this happening, others view the large waves as the best challenge. They are extreme surfers who fly across the world wanting to trip the ocean's most damaging monsters. The pioneer of extreme surfing is the famous Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to table suicidally large waves of 70 and 80 foot. Casey follows this original tribe of peo ple as they seek to overcome the holy grail of the sport, a 100- ft . wave. In such a mesmerizing account, the exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent attempts to comprehend the destructive powers of waves - from the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740-foot-wave that recently leveled area of the Alaskan coast. Like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, The Influx brilliantly portrays human beings confronting character at its most ferocious.
