THE BARQUE OF PETER IS ENCOUNTERING ROUGH SEAS

Posted on February 20, 2017 by abyssum
Force of Lake Erie Storm Waves
Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America and the thirteenth largest globally if measured in terms of surface area. It is the southernmost, shallowest and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes , and therefore it also has the shortest average water residence time. 
Lake Erie’s northern shore is bounded by the Canadian 
province of Ontario , with US states of Ohio , Pennsylvania and New York on its southern and easternmost shores and Michigan on the west. 
PS:  The Great Lakes are actually not lakes. 
They are inland seas!  
The Edmond Fitzgerald sank in November of 1975 in a horrible hurricane on Lake Superior … 100 mph winds and a blizzard of blinding snow & ice.  More ships have sunk in the Great Lakes than anywhere else!
The following photos give you some idea why. 
Looks like the ocean but it’s the Great Lakes .
Dave Sandford has always
Dave Sandford

He recently spent time on Lake Erie shooting the Great Lake ‘s turbulent fall 
season. From mid-October to mid-November, the longtime professional sports photographer traveled each week to Port Stanley, Ontario, on the edge of Lake Erie to spend hours taking photos.
This series of images shows what this Great Lake looks like after the sunbathers and boaters leave and the weather begins to turn.

1. His goal was to capture the exact moment when lake waves driven by gusting winds collide with a rebound wave that’s created when the water hits a pier and collection of boulders on the shore.

His goal was to capture
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2. “The best way I can describe the water is it’s like a washing machine. It’s not like ocean waves, where you 
have a nice set that’s rolling in. They are really erratic, they go all over the place, and there is a strong undertow there so it can be a very dangerous place.”

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4. “I’ve had a number of people, who used to live by the Great Lakes, contact me  …. and they said the photos really stirred something inside them because they grew up there and know what the water can be like.”



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6. “I’m hearing from other people that are blown away. They say, ‘This can’t be a lake, it’s got to be an ocean.’   They had no idea that a lake could generate waves of this size and force.”



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8. “The wave [in this photo] looks sort of like a mountain. I’ve already had it printed up for my own wall at home. These waves move so fast. It’s insane how fast they form, and then from the time that they form to that nice peak to exploding, it’s a mere second.”



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9. “I really enjoyed that challenge, when I was out there, of getting it when it’s in that almost perfect peak on both sides before it explodes, so it has that look of a mountain or a volcano.”



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10. “There was only one evening where the sun broke through.  Most were very overcast days.”



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12. “I enjoy the challenge of freezing things in time. Getting them at the right moment ­ at the peak moment.”



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13. He said his sports photography and his waves series share one importantcharacteristic. “In all the things I’ve made my living doing in photography there are no do-overs no re-dos. You get one shot at it and that’s it, so it really helps you to hone your craft.”



He said his sports
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15. “When you’re on a beach you don’t have a studio setting where you can set something or someone up and have multiple opportunities to get it. It’s one and done.”



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19. “No two waves are ever the same…… you either have it or you don’t.”



We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea,
and you don’t believe in Miracles?

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I am a retired Roman Catholic Bishop, Bishop Emeritus of Corpus Christi, Texas
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2 Responses to THE BARQUE OF PETER IS ENCOUNTERING ROUGH SEAS

  1. Julie says:
    February 22, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    Dear Bishop Gracida, Thank you. Beautiful and awesome and terrifying. I grew up living on Lake Superior outside the city of Superior, WI. It was sometimes wild and violent. As winter approached the waves would freeze in layers in weird shapes. We even had hurricane-force winds that wiped out the Duluth Yacht Club and Superior Marina and swept the water inland when I was a child. I wonder if the Apostles sailing the Sea of Galilee experienced something like a storm on one of the Great Lakes when they woke our Lord in a panic. Brave man, Dave Sanford. Praying you are doing well,Julie Grimstad

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  2. marysong says:
    February 20, 2017 at 11:36 am

    Astonishing! The pictures of the waves look to me more like what I envision tsunami building to be. I live on the East Coast and I’ve never seen anything like this pounding surf to the sky.

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