Mirage of the sea surface with a miraged boat
Taken by Mila Zinkova on September 26, 2016 @
San Francisco, California, USA
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Date Taken: 2016:09:27 19:39:16
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Mirages of the sea surface are rare. That's why it is very exiting to see one. Such mirages were known to Vikings, who called them "Hafgerdingar" http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1223-7_8 Vikings were scared of these "False wall of water" http://textlab.io/doc/5849650/false-wall-of-water As the story goes: "In a few cases only have the men been known to escape who were upon the
seas when such a thing occurred. "
So could a mirage of the sea surface kill people? A new theory about sinking of Titanic says it could: http://www.weatherwise.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2013/March-April%202013/titanic-mirage-full.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-the-titanic-sink-because-of-an-optical-illusion-102040309/?no-ist
So on September 26, 2016 I looked at the ocean and observed that false wall of water. There was also a boat floating there. Both the wall and the boat were below the horizon, but I was able to see them because of a very strong temperature inversion. To get a feeling on how mirage of the sea surface looks it is better to watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9M6h8F0KvE The pictures that are frames from my video cannot demonstrate an amazing dance performed by rays of light
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