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Re: Titanic and Refraction
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2013 Apr 13, 15:27 -0700
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2013 Apr 13, 15:27 -0700
Frank, twice in my years sailing Long Island Sound I have been out in a boat when the water was colder than the air and have seen buoys loom and look like lighthouses. It's kinda fun, and it makes running a boat buoy to buoy a lot easier. :-) I have just started reading Maltin's book and am wondering about how the Californian's officers took the ship they saw five miles away to be a small tramp steamer much like theirs. My experience suggests that if the other ship was Titanic, her four funnels would have stretched upward. A small coastal tramp with four stacks? I assume the book will cover this, but meanwhile I wouldn't mind if someone would ease the suspense and enlighten me. Till now I have not read much about the disaster. Hewitt Sent from my iPad
