Show MISTAKES ABOUT SEA WAVES really they are not nearly as a high c some voyagers voyager have asserted Voyn voyagers gers on stormy sternly sens come anfe safely ashore li diore ancl all tell their friends of waves that rose mountains high and nt times threatened to overwhelm the vessel on which they braved tile the deep tile untrained eyes of the amateur seafarer generally exaggerate the height of 0 the waves and when the tha statement Is 18 made that the water rose at IL least last feet ab above ive tile the ve vessel asel it la is seldom that any of the auditors can call disprove it exilou stive observations made by scientists give the maximum height attained by waves at not more than sixty feet rind and then only when the wind has been of hurricane force the a overage height of waves in a strong gale ly Is about thirty feet in a whole 9 lale ale about thirty seven feet and I 1 in n a s storm form about forty five feet the scientists further state that if waves travel as fast as the average velocity of the strongest winds and if there here be swifter waves wavea produced directly or indirectly by action of the wind upon the sea they do not attain sufficient lelent height to form noticeable breakers |