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"It is a very mystical experience to see a 100-foot wave," The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean author Susan Casey said on the subject of her latest book, rogue waves, a phenomenon the scientific establishment didn't even acknowledge until not too long ago. If you'd witnessed one, Casey pointed out, then you probably didn't survive it. Eventually, though, the establishment caught on. "It took a little quantum physics and chaos theory to explain."