Steamships- on (lie Pacific Coast ol America indulge in the sport ot smashing icebergs, with blasts from the boats' whistles. Officials of some of the cossets claim that scientifically .pitched blasts front the whistles set np vibrations in the face- of the famous Tabu glacier, loosening huge blocks' of ice which crash into the '•ea.; Sows of the steamship companies -say.thpy believe they have found the 'exact whistle tone which causes ■tv icebergs to break. * ..
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11592, 19 August 1931, Page 3
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