A floating ship exploded on the English coast, an expert calls it a “rare phenomenon”

The BBC has reported that the image of a boat floating in the air has been captured by a man on the English coast near Falmouth in the Cornish country. Several reports also spoke of the bizarre-looking image shared by David Morris. Morris, while speaking to the station, said he was “stunned” to see the image of a ship floating in the air.

A BBC meteorologist David Braine explained the phenomenon and said that “a super mirage” has caused the ship to appear floating in the air, due to “the special atmospheric conditions that bend the light”. “Higher mirages occur due to the weather condition known as temperature reversal, where cold air is close to the sea and with warmer air above. Because cold air is denser than warm air, it bends light into the eyes of someone lying on the ground or on the shore, changing the way a distant object appears, “Braine told the BBC. .

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“Higher mirages can produce a few different types of images: here a distant ship appears to float far above its actual position, but sometimes an object below the horizon can be made visible,” he added. Braine also noted that these illusions appear “very rarely” in the UK during the winter, but are common in the Arctic.

A similar image was shared by a Facebook user named Colin McCallum, who also photographed what appeared to be a floating boat, near Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. However, it also turned out to be an optical illusion.

“When I first saw the boat, I had to take a double dam because I really thought it was floating. However, after a new inspection, I realized that it was actually just a remarkable optical illusion, “McCallum said while speaking to the British Daily Mail in February.