Thursday, August 13, 2020

Professional Mariner Has Cool Quora Answer


It's kind of hard not to read this dude's response in the voice of an old grizzled sea captain, stinking of brine. For some other interesting nautical stuff, here are stories of the creepiest things people saw at sea. For some reason having been on the water a long time lends you a bunch of character.

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Text - Quora Open in App Sign In In the open ocean, does the surface ever go still like glass like a lake on a windless day?

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Text - Jonathan Reiter, Retired Professional Mariner Answered October 19, 2019 · Author has 3.9K answers and 1.7M answer views Let's define the term 'like glass', first. It would be as smooth as a poured glass surface, with no swell, no vesper of breeze, no ripples, no movement of any kind, whatsoever. I've been in the doldrums, the Pacific gyre, all up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, across the Indian Ocean, and most mid-oceans. INA

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Text - I can only attest personally, that l've experienced this phenomenon July 4, 1974, leaving Port Everglades at 8 pm, and motoring across the Gulfstream to Bimini, in the Bahamas. True glass like conditions. Once, in over 50 years. 68 views View 6 Upvoters · Answer requested by Frederick Mikkelsen

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