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HOW many pieces of scientific research have been embraced by Hollywood film-makers? Probably fewer than should have been, but perhaps more than we might have expected. Older readers may remember The Poseidon Adventure, a 1972 disaster movie in which an ocean liner is capsized by a monster wave. In our , we warned that such waves, though poorly understood, were certainly more common than had been thought. “Killer waves”, we reported, were more likely at the continental edge where the sea-floor topography suddenly rises more steeply. We surmised that the loss of the SS Waratah off…