Word: sandbar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington Star relied on entirely different evidence. It produced aerial photos, dated May and November 1969, of the sandbar opening through which ocean tides swept northward into Katama Bay, through the channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick and out into the sound. According to the pictures, the opening into Katama Bay was still clear in May but had been blocked by sand by November. The Star indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current...
Kennedy's aides also released statements from two experts disputing quotes attributed to them by the Star. One was Ogden, who was said by the Star to have waded through "chest-deep" water across the sandbar opening in the summer of 1969. But he told Kennedy's staff that "no one in his right mind [would do so] because of the depth and rapidly flowing tidal currents." His wading, he said, had been at a different spot, where the bay was wider and shallower. Replied Star Reporter Duncan Spencer: "I've got it in my notes. That...
...other expert, Ed Rolle, an interpreter of photographs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, was quoted by the Star as saying that the May picture indicated that the sandbar opening was "shallow, possibly one to four feet." But he told Kennedy's staff that he had been misquoted. Actually, he said, "there is no way to tell if the depth is one foot, four feet or some other depth." A third expert, Jerome Milgram, a professor of ocean engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was hired by Kennedy's staff to study the currents...