Looking at waves in the open sea with 'electronic eyes', so as to reconstruct it in 3D, scientists at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council (Ismar-Cnr) found that exceptionally high waves are more common than previously assumed by theoretical models. The study, published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography, has been carried out in the Adriatic Sea, but the result is of glob...