<Pedant mode>Actual Baltimore Sun quote: "No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
American tourist on the Gold coast of Australia asked the tour guide "What ocean is this"?
It's probably because they have to be disseminated by things like Navtex. That uses an encoding descended from 5-bit Baudot code, so it doesn't manage lowercase letters - or at least, it can, but it requires a special control code to be used, so it is avoided.
If I was on an approach into Heathrow from the east, I'd be slightly alarmed to be passing over Windsor Castle, as it would mean we'd missed the airport.
Meh, I once had a go around after the flare point due to another aircraft crossing the runway. A good pilot will give passengers a scenic tour of nearby attractions.
Fred Drift alert.
I think if you read the full article (not easy because it’s full of distractions) then it’s quite clear it was exceptionally high spring tides, and highlights how weather can impact too. I think the author does understand although perhaps the average reader doesn’t understand that not all high tides are the same height.I wonder whether the journalist writing that doesn't know what s/he's taking about, or is trying to precipitate some more 'incidents' to report in the coming months. They've written 'Similar high tides are expected between September 30 and October 2'. Most readers would, having just been warned about the dangers of high tides, take from that that there weren't any high tides except on those dates.
