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