These are men and women who can sense the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon, simply by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their vessel, knowing full well that every island group in the Pacific has its unique refractive pattern with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint.
这些人能够感知到 那些不在视野范围内、遥远珊瑚礁的存在， 仅仅通过观察 拍打船壁的波浪的反射形状， 他们清楚地知道太平洋上每个岛屿群 都有着不一样的反射模式， 通过洞察力 就像法医能够解读指纹那样。