From How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley
From 1833, when the first tide tables were produced by the Admiralty, the emphasis shifted from looking, thinking, and understanding, to depending on tables of others' measurements.
From How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley The rate of change of tidal currents catches a lot of people unawares. One of the classic and dangerous situations that arises is when one group of swimmers decides to copy another group, assuming conditions will be identical.
From How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley There is one big challenge for the water reader when it comes to currents: They are often almost invisible.
From How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley Currents refer to the flow of water in a horizontal direction. Tides refer to the cyclical change in the height of water, driven by astronomical forces, like the moon. Hold onto these two basic definitions because they can get you out of a mess.
From How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, Tristan Gooley I'm itching to assign some kind of meaning to the smile/frown, which is an easy enough speculative exercise, and one I'm actually quite good at, hovering in the liminal space between sensitivity and paranoia as I do.
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