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Because waves are crest-trough measures, they rarely exceed a few tens of feet in normal weather, making it impossible for typical waves to fully obscure distant ships. The ship's vanishing bottom-up is better explained by Earth's curvature blocking the line of sight, not wave interference.
The Effect of Foreground Objects and Perspective
Flat Earth theories suggest that foreground objects—like waves, land, or waves—can obscure distant objects, especially because angular size diminishes with distance.