Show MISTAKES ABO ABOUT UT SEA SEa WAVES Really They Ar Are Arc Not Not- Ne Nearly oily a. a H. H j High Hig as Some me Voyagers Have Hav Asserted Voyagers on stormy J ly Iy ash ashore or and tell their Seas co Come friends me Mf a ely waves that r rose se mountains r hil high 1 lat t l at times thre threatened to om O and vessel essel on which they brav ell braved the e eThe ed the The dee untrained ned eyes ejes of the thel am seafarer er amateur attar l generally exaggerate height het th of or the waves s and when be beat Statement is made that the tha theat water at least feet fee t above the rO rote vessel I it t h G seldom that any of tl th tors cae ca- ca disprove e It Exhaustive observations made by give the height attained b by Y waves es at not sixty feet and then more moe J tb 1 only vh en the wind has been of hurricane force torce Th The g average height of oC waves in Ina a gale Is abo about t thir thirty ty feet In fn a strong whole hol gale about thirty seven se en feet and f In storm about t f forty five f e feet teet The sd scle i further state that If It f waves aves trav traS travel l as fast the as average velocity F o of ot f thi thil e strongest wIn winds ds s and If It there be bo salt swift er waves produced directly or ly by action of the wind upon upon th the e iet sea they do not attain sufficient eat height to fo form torm noticeable breakers I |