Why is the bottom part of Turning Torso behind water? @MathiasKp

Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Two hour timelapse of the view to Turning Torso over 21km, starts at 1:14 . No sign of varying refraction or mirages. Still the bottom part 22m is obscured by water, while observing from 0.8m.

Air and water temperature, 2-3°C
More weather data can be seen here, https://flic.kr/p/24MHUuK
Camera position: google.com/maps/place/55.65236,12.64811

Height of Turning Torso, https://flic.kr/p/UHaPbQ
Daylight photo, https://flic.kr/p/24LsFgM
Night photo, 5sec, https://flic.kr/p/24LsEXv
Night photo, 10sec, https://flic.kr/p/GtqNua

#TurningTorsoFlatEarth

$Why is the bottom part of Turning Torso behind water? Two hour timelapse of the view to Turning Torso over 21km, starts at 1:14 . No sign of varying refraction or mirages. Still the bottom part 22m is obscured by water, while observing from 0.8m. Air and water temperature, 2-3°C More weather data can be seen here, https://flic.kr/p/24MHUuK Camera position: http://www.google.com/maps/place/55.65236,12.64811 Height of Turning Torso, https://flic.kr/p/UHaPbQ Daylight photo, https://flic.kr/p/24LsFgM Night photo, 5sec, https://flic.kr/p/24LsEXv Night photo, 10sec, https://flic.kr/p/GtqNua #TurningTorsoFlatEarth$ $A ferry from Bornholmslinjen hiding behind the horizon, March 11th 2019 In this video I show how ships disappear bottom up behind the horizon. I didnt have a tripod with me so the footage is very unstable. Dandypanty made a stabilized version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVMxohidO40 The ferry is sailing between Rønne (Denmark) and Ystad (Sweden), https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:14.4/centery:55.2/zoom:9 Ferry: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:155510/mmsi:219017081/vessel:EXPRESS%201 On a different day (19th of March) I used an app to get the position of the ferry. I made a collage with all the needed data to calculate amount obstructed here https://flic.kr/p/2dVCxfR Ferry height estimated based on photographs: 24m Observer height: 4.05m Distance: 21.6km Amount hidden geometrical on globe Earth: 16.3m Amount hidden including std. refraction on globe Earth: 12.9m Amount hidden observed: ~13.3m$

$Turning Torso obstructed, no sign of compression or 4m tall waves Photo taken from 25km of distance and 3.7m of height. 1900mm telescope with SLR 1.53 crop factor - 2907mm Photographs: 2019:02:12 16:01:39, day https://flic.kr/p/SFZLay and with 3D https://flic.kr/p/2fP5whP 2019:02:12 17:31:44, day/night https://flic.kr/p/24dCS5v 2019:02:12 18:35:47, night https://flic.kr/p/24dCRjH Amount obscured matches a refraction coefficient k of ~0.12 Distance 25km Observer height: 3.85m Air/water temperature: 2-4°C Obscured observed: 21.3m Obscured on a globe Earth, geometrical: 25.42m Obscured on a globe Earth, geometrical with std. 7/6 refraction: 20.45m Height of Turning Torso: https://flic.kr/p/2f28vnT Observation point: https://www.google.dk/maps/@55.7138615,12.6207295,20z #TurninTorsoFlatEarth$

Mirage, 2h timelapse around sunrise of Turning Torso

Sunset observation shot with 250mm/750mm/solar filter

Zooming in on the horizon of a 150cm big ball

Ship (Severnaya Zemlya) coming into view over the horizon

Den flade horisont på en kugleformet Jord

Can we see further using infrared (IR) on Turning Torso?

Container ship, bottom part beyond the horizon

Mathias Kp |

Why is the bottom part of Turning Torso behind water?