Abstract
An interesting, easy and useful method of finding the observer's distance from a ship, buoy or isolated lighthouse, the height of which is unknown, is by measuring the angle between its waterline and the horizon. To this is added the angle of dip for the height of eye.From the figure it can be seen that the angle so obtained is equal to the angle at the object between the observer's height of eye and his own waterline.
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