Note in pic #1 the freighter's freeboard is a distance of possibly 60 feet.  The subsequent pix are sequential.  Notice the wave coming onto the port bow in pic # 3 and as it washes over the deck in pic #5, it could be as much as 20-30 feet in height.  Total height of this wave?  You do the math.

• Ever wonder why the Edmund Fitzgerald didn't make it?
• A little taste of the seafaring life on the Inland Seas of the Great Lakes!

These photographs were taken aboard the Misener Steamships MV Selkirk Settler as she crossed Lake Superior in typical November weather.

Courtesy of Door County Sail & Power Squadron.

 

Picture 1