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A team of researchers based at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh have recreated for the first time the famous Draupner freak wave measured in the North Sea in 1995.

The laboratory wave alongside Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’
Laboratory recreation of the Draupner wave; The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai
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