Before revision: In the 1940s U.S. Navy, spindrift and spoondrift appear to have been used for different phenomena, as in the following record by the captain of the USS Barb (SS-220) : "Visibility – which had been fair on the surface after moonrise – was now exceedingly poor due to spoondrift.
After revision: In the 1940s U.S. Navy, spindrift and spoondrift appear to have been used for different phenomena, as in the following record by the captain of the : "Visibility – which had been fair on the surface after moonrise – was now exceedingly poor due to spoondrift.