Eric Allaby, The Sea Wins: Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy by Harry T. Holman
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Most maps depicting the Bay of Fundy lying between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick suggest a seemingly benign and interestingly shaped body of water north of the Gulf of Maine.The funnel-shaped area's chief claim to fame is the height of its tides, reportedly the highest in the world.More detailed charts of the area, however, tell the story of a much more dangerous bay, especially at its eastern end where islands, ridges, outcrops and isolated "sunkers" abound, and where the bottom can rise up from fathoms deep to inches in the length of a steamship or on a change of the tide.In addition, the huge tidal flows create cross-currents which can carry a vessel off a safe course, a danger exacerbated by frequent fogs and storm conditions.In early years, this was compounded by the absence of navigation aids, making for a dangerous passage.The port of Saint John, New Brunswick, on the north side of the bay has historically been one of Canada's major ports, ice-free and linked by rail to central Canada and the American mid-west, so sail and steamer traffic through the bay has been high.It is this area, and in particular the mouth of the Bay of Fundy between Yarmouth and the island of Grand Manan, where Eric Allaby sets the stage for a series of shipwreck accounts.The volume covers the stories of some forty wrecks covering the period from 1741 to 1976 but only four are before 1840.Marine archaeologists will shudder at Allaby's accounts of his early diving explorations, blowing up wrecks in order to recover brass and copper from the wreck sites.By the 1970s, however, he had taken training and was recognized as an underwater archaeologist, and for several years worked with the New Brunswick Museum on a project funded by the National Museums of Canada surveying wrecks in the Fundy region.It appears that he began much of his research for this volume in this period and has continued for decades.Allaby was one of a group of marine scholars and researchers who met in Maine in 1971 and became a founding member of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH).He has written a number of volumes of local Book Reviews
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.036 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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