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Originally Posted by Z-man View Post
Polarized is the way to go -- HOWEVER: Make sure you get the right type of polarized glasses. I believe the goal on the water is to eliminate the horizontal rays which bounce off the water and causes glare vs. the vertical glare caused by rays bouncing off mirror and window clad skycrapers in big cities.

At least that's what I remember being told years ago -- not sure of the following though:
a. how true the above statement is.
b. why in the world I remember that essentally useless bit of information.

-Z-man.
Pretty good.

Perfect polarized glasses would have lenses that could rotate to optimize against the angle of the glare. (polarized reflections)
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