It Looks Like a Horseshoe. Or, as someone was heard to remark, "Like Paul Bunyan's lower plate, complete with eight-story-high bicuspids". This picture was taken by a Coast Guard photographer on reconnaissance flight over the grand banks area (fog-ridden from April until July) through which passes the world's heaviest seaborne traffic. Man with all his ingenuity has found no way to control the iceberg menace. He can only do the next best thing - observe and warn. An iceberg, like this one, with approximately 1/8th of its bulk above the surface, 7/8th below, lives a topsy-turvy life. It will tw
It Looks Like a Horseshoe. Or, as someone was heard to remark, "Like Paul Bunyan's lower plate, complete with eight-story-high bicuspids". This picture was taken by a Coast Guard photographer on reconnaissance flight over the grand banks area (fog-ridden from April until July) through which passes the world's heaviest seaborne traffic. Man with all his ingenuity has found no way to control the iceberg menace. He can only do the next best thing - observe and warn. An iceberg, like this one, with approximately 1/8th of its bulk above the surface, 7/8th below, lives a topsy-turvy life. It will twist, tip over and sometimes turn turtle. You don't have to hit it to get hurt. The international ice patrol, operated by the Coast Guard, is charged with responsibility for insuring safe navigation in the North Atlantic during "iceberg season". Two planes, three ships, and some 260 officers and men comprise the 1949 patrol. Ships and planes are based at Argentia, Newfoundland where the commander of the patrol maintains headquarters. "Ice Information" obtained by the patrol is broadcast daily from radio Washington and radio Argentia. The information is repeated locally from Boston, New York, and Norfolk.
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Keywords: 17-a2-187, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
