Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on October 17, 2007 at 06:07:53 from 82.27.20.61 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Re Blue water) posted by Elizabeth on October 17, 2007 at 03:51:10:
Thus the Bay of Biscay, no matter what how brilliant a blue, is still a bay, not "blue water"--the ocean!
I disagree. The Bay of Biscay is enormous, and most of it is beyond the Continental shelf and plunges down to the abyssal depths. It is truly part of the Ocean. The area about which I was speaking was anyway well west of the line between Finisterre and Ushant. We had no engine and were careful to keep Ushant many miles to leeward - to avoid what happened to the Mary Cahoun.
Another of the amazing memories of that trip was watching the readings on the echo-meter plunging downwards until it stopped reading altogether.