WEIRD EXPERIENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

WEIRD EXPERIENCE.

SEA LIKE A BOILING PC>TS,?|^j' -A* account of a most curious experkeo| ' in the .Indian Ocean on Febraary-lTfajj been forwarded by Captain H. Bredl^. I commanding the Wilson liner Ariorto, iX > " the Imperial Merchant Service Qtdld , to the Indian Government ObaemtomSpl Bombay. •, " " ' [k! The night -was clear and cloudless, an® .- the sea smooth -when, •''he":' says, Mfeji «learned . into the most curious and Weii4j ; |i atmospheric phenomenon it has bran my fe : lot ; to see in all my 40years' of a flea life. As we approached it 46 hatil the appearance of breakers on a to* Iwia*ft|B|B but when we got into it at first it lookuu ] like flashes of light (not bright) joajij&raf from all directions in quick time. Aftea some few minutes of this the flashes aaf ij, somed a lengthened . chape, _' s quickly one after the other from the aortfcJ and these continued mb» minutes, ateadiro veering'east and south and . south-wist into*: ' north-west. * ... -, & ;■, f ' ■:. ' " All the time this was going face of the sea appeared to;.;te".ri|i2iriM®| agitated, at times very high they would engulf the ship the iaagiwi ul waves always going in the same,cEl*eUos as the .waves of fight. . ; , ?'t ■ 'The sea'appeared like a boiling pot, g ing one a . moot ' curious . feeling,ithii soft . ' being., perfeetfy •: still, and •• axpoctifig bd . to lurch and roll every instant, me dizzy' watching the - moving flaibtt 4 light, that I ; . had to close xsy eyes fn time to time. -A.,We were steaming it tin-' 1 ";. for 20 minutes, • and then pwsed put ptf it. . «r , .. , ' < f ' " For 20 minutes evejytfciag amjii; tor sumed its ' normal condition/- a befq»tjfa?i fine, clear and ' cloudless nighk' At 1M end of. this time wo again saw the lwfepl thing ahead of the ship, and .'in; 4? ft* | minutes were fairly amongst it again, 'w» if "anything slightly worse, the Mtf fi light acting in precisely a similar •this .• second lot lasting•' about", 15 minttfaij - When we'again steamed out of it. V«. .*• •. <:"When the flashes passed ovw lhi wC'Q appeared just fen.' that instant of time M be full 9' - jelly fish, but ! do v there-.were any. about. .' •T- have swat tits -white water many time®in this;VW)lN|gsea, but this did not' appear like fihfc* -isp any . way. ■ It gave one the idea $Jl|§| cinematograph without the . 'x flashes being to.quick in thai? HOT# Bents."