Here is his description of the giant wave that drowned Merak: "This too was Krakatoa's most colossal wave, the biggest consequence of the biggest and final explosion.
The feat was verified by Guinness after an independent panel of big wave and photography experts measured still and video images of the colossal wave.
People who are looking for a sense that they, that we, are part of a endless and integrated system, part of an ongoing history that moves through time as if on the crest of a colossal wave.
Forecasters have warned of "colossal waves" and winds of up to 70mph to cause further flooding as some coastal areas take another battering.
New models suggest the colossal wave was caused by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Aleutian Islands and reached Hawaiian shores at a height of about 9 meters.
American officials feared that ISIS might try to blow it up, engulfing Mosul and a string of cities all the way to Baghdad in a colossal wave.
After a two year hiatus, the legendary surf contest is scheduled to return to Half Moon Bay this Sunday, when two dozen surfers will take on colossal waves in hopes of taking home a cut of the $50,000 pot.
The new observations do not see the quantum fluctuations directly, but instead have found traces of colossal waves, much like sound waves, that the fluctuations probably set in motion, roiling the young universe.
William Pope L.'s colossal waving flag is the ideal work of art with which to soak up the events of this week of banner headlines.
Did this occur in a bubbling terrestrial pond after colossal waves flung out castaways in all directions?
