NOAA., Volumes 10-14Office of Public Affairs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1980 - Hydrology |
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Page 30 - At midnight I was at the tiller and suddenly noticed a line of clear sky between the south and south-west. I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. During twenty-six years' experience of the ocean in all its moods I had not encountered a wave so gigantic.
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Page 30 - For God's sake, hold on! It's got us!' Then came a moment of suspense that seemed drawn out into hours. White surged the foam of the breaking sea around us.
Page 27 - But the Lord is pleased to provide for them great store of Fish in the spring time, and especially Alewives about the bignesse of a Herring, many thousands of these, they used to put under their Indian Corne, which they plant in Hills five...
Page 30 - During twenty-six years' experience of the ocean in all its moods I had not encountered a wave so gigantic. It was a mighty upheaval of the ocean, a thing quite apart from the big whitecapped seas that had been our tireless enemies for many days. I shouted, " For God's sake, hold on ! It's got us ! " Then came a moment of suspense that seemed drawn out into hours.
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Page 21 - I plainly discovered Commodore Barney's broad pendant in the headmost vessel, a large sloop, and the remainder of the flotilla extending in a long line astern of her. Our boats now advanced towards them as rapidly as possible ; but on nearing them, we observed the sloop bearing the broad pendant to be on fire, and she very soon afterwards blew up. I now saw clearly...
Page 21 - I then proceeded on with the boats, and, as we opened the reach above Pig Point, I plainly discovered Commodore Barney's broad pendant in the headmost vessel, a large sloop, and the remainder of the Ilotilla extending in a long line astern of her.
Page 23 - just another false alarm." 7. All tsunamis — like hurricanes — are potentially dangerous, even though they may not strike each Pacific coastline or do damage at each coastline they strike. 8. Never go down to the beach to watch for a tsunami: when you can see the wave you are too close to escape it. 9. Sooner or later, tsunamis visit every coastline in the Pacific.