On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:28:53 +0100, "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:

>> My point was that the standard wave model says that "12X happens once 
>> every few millennia", but now it turns out that actually it happens 
>> somewhere on Earth once every few weeks - and that's kind of worrying...
>
>Well sure, but I haven't yet heard of all the oil rigs and other off-shore 
>structures being reinforced due to fears of the model used 20 years ago 
>being incorrect by 3 orders of magnitude...
> 
From my knowledge of working on oil rigs and platforms. They were designed to
survive a 100 foot wave occasionally. Occasionally became every other year but
you are forgetting that in the summer when the weather is good, maintenance is
carried out and faults are repaired.

Regards
	Stephen

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