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Date: May 05, 2008 at 11:33:34
From: ken, [pool-64-223-33-122.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Re: Tidal strait observations


Two weeks ago I watched a steelhead move into a small waterfall chute and hold there. He did not more a fin or his tail at all and I watched him for about fifteen minutes. The water where he was holding dropped about three feet from the top to the bottom and the chute was about six feet long.

Yup this head was pointing up into the waterfall and his tail was up in the water fall too. HE was suspended right in the middle of the flow like a mobile hanging from a ceiling.

How is this possible?

Simple the back causes lift like an airplane wing and their fins redirect that upward lift into thrust.

The bigger the fish the heavier water they can rest in without moving a muscle. I have watched Atlantic salmon do this too.

What does it mean?

It means that they do not get tired in heavy current because they are not working at swimming against it. Their bodies use the current flow to fly in the current like birds in heavy wind.

THis is normal not a new development.

PEople always think that everything is supposed to work like their thinking works based on being a land animal but it doesn't.
This is observation not theory. It is the way it really is.


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