Witness an ocean liner ripped in half by killer waves and sail aboard a yacht tossed about on the open seas
in fifty foot rollers as Anatomy of Disaster explores the origins and cycles of nature's most destructive force
- the power of the ocean that drives intense storms an immense waves.
Enormous energy, caused by storm winds, reverberates out across the surface of the ocean in what we
experience as waves. And woe to ships or coastal residents in their paths! From an Australian sailing
couple's struggle to survive a tropical storm, to an attempt to save crewmen off a cargo ship before it
crashes into North Sea cliffs, Anatomy of Disaster takes us to the world's worst storms and the mariners
who face them. We'll examine cyclonic storm surges, gigantic ocean rollers, and killer rogue waves. To
better understand these incredible forces of nature, we'll stand onboard an oil tanker as it breaks up and then
barely escape as it plunges into the depths, cling to a catamaran in a South Pacific Typhoon, and watch a
ship off Mozambique sink after being hit by a rogue wave.
