Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — Echoes Toid Location of Icebergs. [ARTICLE]

Echoes Toid Location of Icebergs.

Captain Anderson of the Scandtnav-lan-Amqjrlcan liner Kentucky, from Copenhagen said recently: “Life on the sea la being made easier not so much by science as by common sense. When the Kentucky was to the eastward of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, In a dense fog, the temperature began to drop and the atmosphere Indicated the presence of Icebergs. “We were at a loss to tall whether they were ahead, astern, or abeam. I thought of an experiment. I had the whistle blown, the sound waves struck the huge masses of floating loe, and by means of echoes we were able to tell the location of the icebergs, and steered to the southward, away from the drifting bergs.