Ralph Ignacio, of Regal Ships, has skippered freighters bound for the Caribbean for many years. He dismissed the notion that Anita was overloaded or her cargo was not distributed properly. That's Spanish for crazy wave or rogue wave. Typically twice the size of waves around it, sometimes more, a rogue is usually preceded by a deep trough, which can make a ship tip dangerously. It's nearly impossible to see one coming.
Researchers think rogue waves form when opposing currents converge and focus wave energy.
One place where they have been found is the Gulf Stream, off Florida. Hammond said there is no way of knowing if a rogue wave was to blame for Anita's sinking, but he doesn't discount it. Adelaida Torres doubts anything could sink a ship in the blink of an eye. She thinks it strange that only the captain's body was found. She dreamed her fiance was on an island.