The 107-foot f/v Rollo is equipped to handle tumultuous seas. Average seas in the Bering Sea have around 10- to 20-foot waves, but Arnold has witnessed massive 50-foot waves and the Rollo's ...

During this period of sea ice loss, wind speeds and wave heights increased. "In the Bering Sea, sea ice acts both to dampen waves as they hit the edge of the ice cover, and also to limit the ...