NavList:

George H, you wrote:
"Anyone who pictures a wave in that way will misunderstand wave motion completely. Although the profile of a wave travels, the water, from which it is constructed, does not. It goes round and round in a circle (or an ellipse) without travelling."

Now honestly, did you really think that you were correcting something here, George? I don't think there's anyone who's been around the ocean for more than a few weeks who has not learned this fact about ocean waves. I first learned it when I was perhaps six years old. It is in every sense of the phrase "common knowledge". Certainly --and beyond any faint shadow of doubt-- Joe Schultz knows it. I didn't find his "iceberg" analogy all that useful, but it wasn't literally wrong.

-FER