WHITE SEAS

• In a report to the US Hydrographic Office in Port Townsend, Washington State, on 13 August 1910, Captain Samuels of the American barkentine Aurora, on her arrival from Callao, Peru, described a phenomenon that marine authorities declared to be without precedent. On 17 June, in latitude 11 degrees south and longitude 80 west, the vessel entered an area of snow-white water. The expanse was so large that it took almost an entire day’s sailing to traverse. Its merging with the natural ocean water was sharply defined in colour, creating a marvellous scene of marine beauty. Investigation with every means available failed to show the cause was submarine volcanic eruption or other upheaval. A bucket filled with the milk-white fluid, when left on deck for an hour, resumed a normal…

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