sentences:  Waves generated by these storms could well have combined to create large waves like those that struck "Castine" and "Memphis".Such a circumstance appears to explain the waves better than the tsunami theory.Oceanographer Dr. George Pararas-Carayammis in particular published an extensively detailed rebuttal demonstrating that a tsunami could not have caused the near-loss of "Castine" and foundering of "Memphis", but that the last of the three hurricanes, a category 2 hurricane, likely did, creating a wave that reached a breaker height of as it approached "Memphis".