Swimming obstructed by dead-water

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 449-456

  Ganzevles, Sander P M ^a   Van Nuland, Fons S W ^a   Maas, Leo R M ^b,c   Toussaint, Huub M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dead water; Drowning; Internal waves; Stratified water; Swimming

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; INTERNAL WAVE; OPEN WATER; STRATIFICATION; SWIMMING; WATER MASS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROPOWER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SPIKE WAVE; SWIMMING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

BIOMECHANICS; DROWNING; HAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SWIMMING; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 63949088282     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0493-6     Document Type: Article

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