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Thirty yptian super oil tanker Ra turbulence Captain Warren Meade stood in horror as a ninety-foot wave traveling at an incredible speed surged up over his ship's stern, tearing off the railings and sending tons of water s the crew's quarters and storerooms The crew in the pilothouse watched dumbstruck as the wave passed around the superstructure and swept over the huge seven-hundred-foot-long deck of the hull whose waterline was sixty feet below, s and pipes before it passed over the bow

An eighty-foot yacht owned by the founder of a coers and five crew on a cruise to Dakar, sie seas without time to send a Mayday

Before night fell, a dozen other ships would suffer Lizzie's destructive violence

Heidi and fellowin conferences and studying the data on the latest syste of Lizzie as she swept past longitude 40 west inall previous predictions out theby running straight with barely a wobble

At three o'clock, Heidi took a call fro?" he asked

"Our ground data processing syste the data to your center now," she answered "Marine advisories began going out last night"

"What does Lizzie's path look like?"

"Believe it or not, she's running straight as an arrow"

There was a pause "That's a neist"

"She hasn't deviated as much as ten miles in the last twelve hours"

Harley was dubious "That's unheard-of"

"You'll see when you get our data," said Heidi fir ninety-foot waves"

"Good lord! What about your computer forecasts?"

"We throw them in the trash as soon as they're printed Lizzie is not confor to the modus operandi of her predecessors Our coree of accuracy"

"So this is the hundred-year event"