On the flip side
Are stories from legions long distance sailors struggling to remain visible to tankers, hoisting all manner of metal doodads aloft, and radioing vessels asking if they can be seen on radar only to be told "uh - wait - can you give me a bearing - oh yes - that must be you?"
Depends a lot on weather conditions. Waves hide things and produce noise for instance.
.....To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone -- to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone:
.....From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink -- greetings!
-- George Orwell, 1984