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 that can be read with the same perspicacity with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint.
To su muškarci i žene koji mogu osjetiti prisutnost udaljenih atola izvan vidokruga jednostavno promatrajući odražavanje valova o korito njihovog plovila, znajući veoma dobro da svaka grupa otoka na Pacifiku ima jedinstveni, refraktivni obrazac koji se može prepoznati s istom pronicljivošću s kojom forenzičari uočavaju otisak prsta.