No, what you're witnessing at sea is a rogue wave, also called a freak wave.
Be determined to solve your problems, or life will be determined to knock you down like a rogue wave.
Based don a true story of a fishing boat out of Kodiak, Alaska that encountered a storm and was hit by a rogue wave.
For many years oceanographers dismissed sailors' reports of rogue waves much as they did stories of mermaids.
In 2004 scientists using three weeks of radar imAges from European Space Agency satellites found ten rogue waves, each 25 metres or more high.