When friends tell you tall stories of their rough sea passagehow mountainous, star-blotting waves towered "50, 60, 100 feet above our trembling ship," refer them to an article that appeared last week in the Social Politischer Dienst (Berlin). Accurate determination with a special cinema camera had, it was stated, shown that ocean waves in a light breeze were from 2 to 4 yards high (i.e:, above sea level). In a "high sea," waves might rise to 9 yards ; in a "violent gale," to 10 or 12 yards.
From crest to crest the "longest"...
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