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Tide Charts

[tromatic]

anyone know how to look up to see if someone got arrested for using a compressor to fish? maybe we can see if we can find someone and link him to Boston, then to Minker's buddy Fred.

[Nulfox]

Josh and he's friends went fishing for rare fish, by accident they experienced the Groom Lake train.
Since then Josh haven't been active on he's blog anymore, because he's dead.

Could be.

[vapor]

Thanks for starting the thread.

So here is an example of tide charts for Boston Harbor for the week of June 16th through June 22nd.

[FilmEdge]

[vapor]

I found some more supporting evidence that these are a form of tidal charts.

During the lunar cycle, there are two types of tides that cause stronger and weaker tidal forces. The result is higher and lower than average water levels during tides, slack water time that is shorter than average and stronger tidal currents than average.

The tides are called spring tides and neap tides. Spring tides usually occur around Full and New moons due to the sun being lined up with the moon and earth. Neap tides occur around First Quarter and Last Quarter moons since the sun and moon's gravitational forces somewhat cancel each other out. The interval between each spring tide is about 2 weeks.

The tidal charts on HLM follow a pattern which is fairly consistent with what you would expect a spring tide (full moon and new moon). Note that the times overlap one another on these dates. Also note the 2 week interval between the time anomalies.

[FilmEdge]

[vapor]

[Helter Skelter]

its amazing though the way new information comes out and suddenly all the trouting ceases until people come up with more theories for them to repost xD

[vapor]

2 weeks between updates will do that I suppose.

Back on topic though, tonight I'm going to begin the Brute Force process and try to nail down a location based on low tide times. I'm almost sure it will be fruitless just like all the other puzzles we've had so far. I'll be able to get close enough to a solve to frustrate the hell out of myself and then spend the next few days obsessing over it.

I. Can't. WAIT.

ETA: I found another site that's making the brute force a bit easier on the eyes. http://www.tides.info/

So I started my searching in Nova Scocia down into Maine. I noticed that the closest matches were still about an hour off. So I moved southward and westward into the mid-atlantic states. It seems like the closest matches are in Massachusetts. Specifically in Cape Cod down to Nantucket Island.

It makes sense to me that JM would try to charter a boat out of Boston to get to Cape Cod for some rare fish spotting. It also makes sense to me that he would go to Cape Cod. It's known world-wide as a sport fishing mecca. It's also home to snakehead fish, red lionfish, giant sturgeon, sea lamreys, and wolffish to name a few. Sound familiar? http://super8.wikibruce.com/Hooklineandminker.com/photo_slider

I'm not saying it's Cape Cod but it sure did catch my eye.

[booba]

Great work vapor!
So... if the charts are listing the time of slack water between tide changes, say 34 min, the event (high or low tide) would occur exactly in the middle of the duration, say 9:23 am plus 17 min for high or low tide at 9:40 am?

[FilmEdge]

[comadarkvale]

nicely done.But what can we use it for now is the question still.

[FilmEdge]

Agreed that the tide chart raises as many questions as it seems to offer clues. The times stated are fairly "useless" for any online ARG prompting without a specific time zone designated to them.

We can assume an East Coast zone by other game clues, but have no such direction.

With moon positions and tides being a local phenomenon, I can't see an ARG clue/event triggering at '10:38 am your local time' because it would essential have to re-trigger 24 times on a given day for international play.

The times overlapping still baffle me as that would seem utterly contrary to tides, let alone tide charts. A puzzlement.

[comadarkvale]

My original thought was we would have to match the moon on the chart with the rp.com moon and something would happen.But now i just dont know .The chart has to have something in it.The worse part is it just may not be in june or july.It could play aprt in for all we know.