Lamp Blackened Iceberg Ready for Test. Lieutenant (jg) Thomas F. Budinger, USCGR, last of the Ice Patrol iceberg lamp blacking party to abandon target, make a run for the lifeboat from the oceanographic vessel USCG Evergreen. One-half of this 75-ft. wide, 150-ft. long tabular iceberg in Cape Bonavista bay, Nfld., has been covered with 100 lbs. of the carbon by three Coast Guard officers. The berg will be watched from the Cutter Evergreen for 12 hours and the effects of the carbon evaluated. The theory of this test is based on the carbon's potential capacity for holding the heat from sun r
Lamp Blackened Iceberg Ready for Test. Lieutenant (jg) Thomas F. Budinger, USCGR, last of the Ice Patrol iceberg lamp blacking party to abandon target, make a run for the lifeboat from the oceanographic vessel USCG Evergreen. One-half of this 75-ft. wide, 150-ft. long tabular iceberg in Cape Bonavista bay, Nfld., has been covered with 100 lbs. of the carbon by three Coast Guard officers. The berg will be watched from the Cutter Evergreen for 12 hours and the effects of the carbon evaluated. The theory of this test is based on the carbon's potential capacity for holding the heat from sun rays which can penetrate the iceberg and hasten its melting. Several days before this test, the Ice Patrol tried mining and igniting thermite incendiary charges on this same berg. There was no marked demolishing effect.
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