The Cellar - View Single Post - 6/13/2006: Lighthouse buried by growing sand dunes

xoxoxoBruce · 06-13-2006, 06:07 PM

I don't believe they stopped using it because it couldn't be seen anymore, as the light is well above the dunes.
More likely they couldn't maintain it with the buildings buried plus by 1968 they had good radar on the ships.

06-13-2006, 06:07 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I don't believe they stopped using it because it couldn't be seen anymore, as the light is well above the dunes. More likely they couldn't maintain it with the buildings buried plus by 1968 they had good radar on the ships. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.