Ryan Hanyok / U.S. Navy “There are no freak waves in the world,” says naval architect Jon Etxegoien. “They are all predictable.” He’s strolling the shores of an indoor ocean—a 12 ...

An introduction is given to stochastic description of ocean waves, wave spectrum, wave statistics, and definition of freak waves. An introduction is also given to nonlinear wave resonance, free and ...