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Drauper oil rig, freak wave amplitude graph, fair use Source: here

This is the reading of the actual wave which best evidences to a reader what a "freak wave" reading looks like. The Draupner incident was the first such verified measurement of a freak wave by a scientific instrument. It is used in the article both to accompany the description of the verification at the Draupner platform, as well as to indicate to a lay reader what such a reading looks like, being a very clear representation of a genuine rare incident.