For those of you with Google Earth, go to these coordinates and zoom in . What the heck is causing these wave patterns? No ships visible and is just downright wierd.

0 51 49 58 S by 46 35 52 46 W

 

Hey Norm.
no google for me, but how did your spam experment go?

 

Is that degrees/minutes/seconds or degrees/decimal minutes?

 

I've only had about a half dozen in total since I was last on. The jury is still out for a bit though.
About Google Earth. You should try it. I followed roads from Costa Rica through to the tip of South America. The only unpassable section is the Darien Gap, just south of the Panama Canal, but I hear there are boats to take you around (along with your motorcycle). I read a site from some guy who actually went through the Darien Gap. Basically loaded his bagger into a canoe at some point, got stuck zillions of times and had a bit of a non-serious run-in with banditos, but survived everything. Another guy boated or flew his bike south of the Gap. The roads through Peru and Chile are just mind-blowing. Huge canyons that you wind down to the bottom, then back up the other side, but, to my amazement, it appears at least 90% are hard topped. The Pacific side of SA appears to be mostly mountains, but lots of beaches, while the Atlantic side seems to be relatively flat and wet. What a way to take a trip around the world, virtual flight as close as 200metres above ground level. It's like flying in a helicopter a plane or the space shuttle, depending on how close you want to zoom in. ( I use the free edition but you can subscribe to the upgrade with frequent downloads. I think the free one uses photos from a couple of years ago because I can see my storage sheds in their old locations in the back yard and the fence is still up. It's been down for a couple of years now)
Another program from NASA World Wind is supposed to be much better, (and I hear it's free with regular updates) but you need a newer graphics card. I've yet to get up the courage to ask the wife if I can try it on her laptop.

 

Is it the Bermuda Triangle?

 

If you have Google, look at the bottom of your window. It's (A)degrees, (B)minutes, (C)seconds and (D)hundredths of seconds.

Not the Bermuda Triangle. It's just off the coast of Amazon or Surinam or something like that. I forget.

Just checked. Northeast of Belem, Brazil.

 

Shallow water, waves breaking on sand dunes and/or rocks is my guess.

 

Speaking of the Bermuda Triangle, has anyone here been to the island of Bermuda?

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The lines are too perfectly straight to be waves of any kind.

 

I've never seen dunes etc for a pattern like that. My wife figures a breakwater or something like that. But at 150 meters in height above them, you should see the structure, unless they are underwater??

 

It's seems a contour/topo to me

 

Just what do you define a contour/topo as? I also noticed more further along the coast to the south. There's a ship just to the right of the lines and then just to the right of the ship are more.

 

my bad . . .

The first time I looked I saw this



and that's what I said was breaking water . . .

after someone mentioned that it was straight (which that wasn't) I rechecked

and came up with this:



I take it this is what you are referring to?

 

Them's them.

 

Looks like man made breakers to prevent corrosion, how far off shore are they?