Dave Kruger writes: > OTBE, this will be somewhere close to mid-tide, and may only occur for > a very short time. This is discussed in David Burch's book on kayak > navigation, and Bascom's Waves and Beaches, also. Funny you should mention Willard Bascomb just now. I was watching a National Geographic program last night when his name came up. It seems he wrote another book that inspired Robert Ballard, the discoverer of the Titanic, to look for ancient shipwrecks in the Black Sea. (The depths of the Black Sea being poisonous to marine life, Bascom speculated that it might be possible to find intact wooden hulls on the bottom.) When Ballard found a 1500-year-old (or was it 1500 BC?) shipwreck last year that had an intact mast still standing over the deck, he immediately phoned Bascom with the news only to find out that Bascom had died two days before. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 08 2001 - 11:10:13 PST
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