Agencies in Santa Barbara, California, destroyed 2,000 bottles of wine that were sold by Ocean Fathoms, the office of the city's district attorney announced last week. Starting in 2017, the company was sinking crates full of bottles without a proper permit in hand from the California Coastal Commission and US Army Corps of Engineers.

These freak waves are rare and unpredictable—and are believed to have caused numerous shipwrecks.