Comments on: Looking Down https://askthepilot.com/sable-island/ THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE SITE FOR EVERYONE WHO FLIES Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:20:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: chandelle https://askthepilot.com/sable-island/#comment-408868 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:39:16 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=19442#comment-408868 Roy Plomley was thinking about Sable for his Desert Island Discs. Some nice Google Street View images around as well… https://bit.ly/3HFaSSV

]]> By: Ad absurdum per aspera https://askthepilot.com/sable-island/#comment-408856 Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:59:52 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=19442#comment-408856 Sable Island was a notorious place in the age of sail and even thereafter (there were a couple of slightly post-WW2 wrecks). Hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives have been lost there, and a lifesaving station stayed active until 1958, when it became apparent that radar and augmentation of the lighthouse with a radio beacon were finally enabling ships to give it a wide berth.

The September issue of National Geographic has a memorable article on it (as well as other items of likely interest hereabouts: a cover story about the US Air Force and another story about the longest spacewalk thus far).

]]> By: Nicholas Walton https://askthepilot.com/sable-island/#comment-408829 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:14:45 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=19442#comment-408829 Interesting – I’d heard about Sable Island from the book ‘The Perfect Storm’, as the island was right in the path of the terrible weather that sank the boat involved. Much of the wreckage was washed up there. I’d never seen it before, so thank you. Nicholas.

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