[DogByte6RER]

ANEMOMETER, THERMOMETER, CURRENT DRAG, SEXTANT, AND CARBONIC ACID APPARATUS.

[DogByte6RER]

For reference:

REPORT of the SCIENTIFIC RESULTS of the VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER DURING THE YEARS 1873-76

http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-INDEX/index-linked.htm

[DogByte6RER]

ping (if you’re interested)

[Tennessee Nana]

Fascinating

[tumblindice]

For days and days,
And nights and nights,
They sailed the wild Atlantic;

If not for the hope
Of a piece of a**,
The sailors would be frantic.

Guess they ran out of Hope ...

[wxgesr]

I talked some of my weather guessering shipmates back onto the ship in the P.I., 1980. They were gonna stay there or so they thought. We had a tyrant for a newly minted Chief.

This kinda crappola been happening as long as ships left the sight of land, I reckon.

Great historical piece though, thank God for Maury as well. Read about his innovation and use of “apps” to create standardized maritime meteorological observations.

http://ww2.nps.k12.va.us/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=326&;

[TalBlack]

This article shows that no matter how clunky a sentence sounds without it a PC writer just CAN’T use the word “man”.

[shibumi]

Thanks for posting. Fascinating article.

(Are they sure the men went *MAD*? There’s always the chance they were Democrats.)

[rmlew]

The sad part is that we still know very little about the deep seas.