Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Ghost Ship Legend

The Flying Dutchman The Flying Dutchman is a novel of folklore speaks of a ship ghost destined to sail forever in the ocean without returning to the dock of the new anchor. The appearance marked omen for sailors and harbinger of disaster is imminent. Usually show visible from a distance, and if he tried a close of them, trying to crew members to send him messages to other people on land, it turns out later that they died long ago. tells the story that the captain van der have faced a storm in the Cape of Good Hope Voksm that would cross the head, even if taken from him this until the end of the world, remained under the curse that is going on his ship and crew dead, the Day of Resurrection. Another version of the myth speaks of the captain, another Valkinberg forced to sail across the North Sea, forever to he sold his soul to the devil

 There are several stories revolve around the myth of the Flying Dutchman, some claim it is Dutch, and others believe that the origin of English. There are many claimed they saw the ship, since 1835, and the last was in 1942 at the coast of Cape Town. As this name has become effective until it was put this title on a player Johan Cruyff, the ball is beyond many of the Dutch soccer players. Used the idea of ​​the Flying Dutchman in a number of literary works, music has adopted the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Ancient Mariner in 1798, on this myth. And Hur German composer Richard Wagner, the story in his novel analog musical opera The Flying Dutchman in 1843, which helped spread the popularity of story.

Explanation is the most credible Views ship mentioned is the occurrence of the phenomenon of visual Atohmha people as a ship of ghosts, this phenomenon is the mirage strong appearance or phenomenon Fata Morgana Fata Morgana, which normally seen in the sea. It is just the implications of visual, but the implications of "distorted" forms of passing ships from a distance does not occur only under certain circumstances and for short periods and this is what explains the disappearance and the emergence of Views alleged see this phenomenon, usually in the morning after a cold night, resulting in radiation of heat in the atmosphere in the form of mirage objects appear on the horizon or even below the horizon stretched out or Mmtooth like fortresses inspired by the popular fictional stories, but in fact islands, rocky Grova or ships, or certainly a huge floating ice

When a mirage strong (Fata Morgana) to a passing ship, it is possible to have several forms, so that the boat sometimes seems like a flying scene in ghostly or unusual with the change of its shape, as can be seen the ship floating in the waves and sometimes looks a picture of ships flipped "click the "image of the original ship. In some cases, be difficult to distinguish between what is real or imaginary. It is interesting that when the vessel is below the horizon, the phenomenon of Fata Morgana in front of where the message will appear on the horizon, but distorted.

 Fata Morgana is the Italian translation of the name of the sister-sister (Morgan Lee-Fi - in English) King Arthur's Britain, which claimed that she was able to shift shape as in fairy tales. The reason for this phenomenon to the occurrence conditions of the transition heat, which is an increase of temperature with increasing altitude above sea level, or within a layer or a certain range. A shift emissions to pollution as a block of Ghabashh (fog or smoke) to be locked and close to the ground and have usually counterproductive to health, and lead the same transition to curb the movement of molecules and their families, he works as a cover, the violations occurred in that cover a number of reasons, the movement of particles in any medium damp can explode in a violent thunderstorm

  

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