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Updated: June 10, 2025
We both expected the wind to rise during the night, but intended keeping our ships together until next day, and so made all our arrangements for signaling, so that we might not part company in the darkness. "When I went below I met Kelson at the cabin door. 'The barometer's taken a start downward, sir, said he: 'we shall have nasty weather before morning.
She had been busy below all day, and had just come up, as she put it, for a breath of air. She surveyed the sky in weather-wise fashion for a full five minutes, then remarked: "The barometer's very high 30 degrees 60. This light north wind won't last. It will either go into a calm or work around into a north-east gale." "Which would you prefer?" I asked. "The gale, by all means.
The passengers applauded, and there was quite a clatter of camera shutters as they snapped the Pomerania looming grandly above them. "Boats are all provisioned and equipped," shouted Gissing. "I've broadcasted your position by radio. The barometer's at Fixed Fair. Pull off now, and 'ware the screw." He moved the telegraph handle to DEAD SLOW, and the Pomerania began to slip forward gently.
They put the brig on the starboard tack, and took hourly soundings with the deep-sea lead. As they hauled it in for the fourth time, the men called that the water was cold; and on the next sounding the lead reached bottom at ninety fathoms. "We're inside the Stream and the hundred-fathom curve, Angel. The barometer's rising now.
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