Extreme events in wave fields traversing an oblique current: a laboratory experiment in a directional wave basin

(1) Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Vic., Australia (toffoli.alessandro@gmail.com), (2) French Naval Oceanographic Center, 13 rue du Chatellier, Brest, France (fabrice.ardhuin@shom.fr), (3) Saint-Venant Laboratory, Univ. Paris-Est (EDF R\&D-CETMEF-Ecole des Ponts), Chatou, France (michel.benoit@edf.fr), (4) Det Norske Veritas, Hoevik, Norway (elzbieta.bitner-gregersen@dnv.com), (5) Institute of Marine Sciences, Venice, Italy (luigi.cavaleri@ismar.cnr.it), (6) K. U. Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium (jaak.monbaliu@bwk.kuleuven.be), (7) Universita’ di Torino, Torino, Italy (onorato@ph.unito.it and al.osborne@gmail.com), (8) MARINTEK, Trondheim, Norway (Carl.Stansberg@marintek.sintef.no)