To show the angle of depression, draw a horizontal line at the top of the tower: The angle between that horizontal and the line of sight to the boat is 3° Now by alternate interior angles the angle in the right corner of the triangle is also 3° Now 60 is the opposite side to the angle 3° at the bottom right corner, and x is the adjacent side. So we know to use tangent tan(3°) = Multiply both sides by x x*tan(3°) = 60 x = x = or about 1145 feet. Edwin