That may be, but that wave has only washed ashore in two countries: Egypt and Tunisia.
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Seven cows washed ashore drowned after attempting to cross the channel from Cefn Sidan to the harbour.
Argentine forensic experts have identified the remains of a body that washed ashore in Uruguay in 1976.
It sucked oxygen from the water, clogged boat motors and washed ashore in rotting masses that turned beachgoers' stomachs.
Birds started to be washed ashore in Dorset on 31 January when 100 were rescued and 15 were confirmed dead.
At the end of March, hundreds of dead birds including puffins were washed ashore after severe conditions in the North Sea.
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Specimens have washed ashore on beaches but never before have been filmed in their normal habitat deep in the ocean, researchers say.
Up to 15 seabirds died and dozens more were found covered in oil after it was washed ashore by strong winds last week.
Wounded pirates are seldom seen and our reporter says he has never heard of residents along Puntland's coast finding a body washed ashore.
Birds washed ashore on the south coast after being contaminated with an oil additive have been transferred to a wildlife centre in East Sussex.
Globs of thick, gooey petroleum have washed ashore along the south Louisiana coast over the past week, landing on beaches and washing into marsh reeds.
Small globules of oil, seen as a possible leading edge of the spill, increasingly have washed ashore in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in recent days.
The seals had been washed ashore on the Isle of Man and were then flown to the zoo by private jet at the end of last year.
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On several islands where the crude washed ashore, including Naked Island and Knight Island, a visitor even now can turn over a rock and find viscous black crud.
In August, a room tag from the line's Maasdam cruise ship and sewage washed ashore in Lynn, Massachusetts, leading town officials to suggest the debris may have come from the ship.
Those commemorated in the UK died at home or in hospital from their wounds or disease, in training accidents and air raids, or were killed at sea and their bodies washed ashore.
Just over two years after the Japan earthquake and tsunami, researchers made a startling discovery in a 20-foot-long Japanese fishing vessel that washed ashore last month near Long Beach, Washington: five tropical fish, alive and well.
When the boat finally washed back ashore, the 10 people left alive were imprisoned.
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Samoan meteorological officials suggest that some victims were killed by a second wave that swept ashore as they gathered fish washed up by the first.
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