Sonar (or "Soundings" Thereof) Was Used Way Back In 60 to 70 AD?!

[ABM]

Dang, that's pretty cool! Just read about that:

Acts 27:28

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Not quite.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/acts-27-28.html

Or let down their plummet, or sounding line; which was a line with a piece of lead at the end of it, which they let down into the water, and by that means found what depth it was, by which they could judge whether they were near land or not. The sounding line, with the ancients, was called by different names; sometimes bolis, and this is the name it has here, (bolisantev) , "they let down the bolis": and the bolis is, by some, described thus; it is a brazen or leaden vessel, with a chain, which mariners fill with grease, and let down into the sea, to try whether the places are rocky where a ship may stand, or sandy where the ship is in danger of being lost.

 

[ABM]

Not quite.

http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/acts-27-28.html

Why, then, use the term "sounding"? A plummet is more of a "feeling" process, is it not?

 

[Eastoff]

Why, then, use the term "sounding"? A plummet is more of a "feeling" process, is it not?

words change their meaning over time. Now drink and be gay!

 

[Eastoff]

This is pretty close though.

 

[ABM]

words change their meaning over time. Now drink and be gay!

What the heck. Me thinks you you should meet PtldPlatypus and me for a round of alligator eggs (and fill-in-the-______-here) @ The Ram and we can debate the issues at hand!

 

[Eastoff]

What the heck. Me thinks you you should meet PtldPlatypus and me for a round of alligator eggs (and fill-in-the-______-here) @ The Ram and we can debate the issues at hand!

at the Ram, which one? Also, probably not, I'm just curious

 

[ABM]

at the Ram, which one? Also, probably not, I'm just curious

Clackamas. Awww, c'mon...I was just teasing about the debating. I just miss you, is all.