Upon learning of some very interesting new work on the properties of ship wakes as measured by airborne radar and other modern means (R. Gasparovic and D. Johnson, personal communication), we were reminded of some measurements conducted by John Isaacs some 40 years ago and never published (John Dove Isaacs Papers, Scripps Institution of Oceanography-Archives). Isaacs died in June 1980.

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