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  2. Swimming - Wikipedia

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    Swimming requires endurance, skill, and efficient techniques to maximize speed and minimize energy consumption. [1] Swimming is a popular activity and competitive sport where certain techniques are deployed to move through water. It offers numerous health benefits, such as strengthened cardiovascular health, muscle strength, and increased ...

  3. Shore power - Wikipedia

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    Shore power or shore supply is the provision of shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth while its main and auxiliary engines are shut down. [1] While the term denotes shore as opposed to off-shore, it is sometimes applied to aircraft or land-based vehicles (such as campers, heavy trucks with sleeping compartments and tour buses), which may plug into grid power when parked for idle reduction.

  4. Undertow (water waves) - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] [7] The distribution of flow velocities in the undertow over the water column is important as it strongly influences the on- or offshore transport of sediment. Outside the surf zone there is a near-bed onshore-directed sediment transport induced by Stokes drift and skewed-asymmetric wave transport. In the surf zone, strong undertow ...

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  6. Cruise lines and ports are banking on shore power. What ... - AOL

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    Shore power has become a major focus of the cruise industry’s sustainability efforts. Technology enabling ships to connect to landside electrical power has been added to many new and existing ...

  7. Surfing - Wikipedia

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    To create the feel of the wave, surfers even sneaked into empty backyard swimming pools to ride in, known as pool skating. Eventually, surfing made its way to the slopes with the invention of the Snurfer, later credited as the first snowboard. Many other board sports have been invented over the years, but all can trace their heritage back to ...

  8. Rip current - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to popular misunderstanding, a rip does not pull a swimmer under the water. It carries the swimmer away from the shore in a narrow band of moving water. [1] A rip current is like a moving treadmill, which the swimmer can get out of quite easily by swimming at a right angle, across the current, i.e. parallel to the shore in either ...

  9. Team title decided by 5/100ths of a second at Shore ... - AOL

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    Shore Conference Girls Swim Championship 2024 in Toms River, NJ on February 3, 2024. Swimmer of the Meet: Molly Cullen, St. Rose There is a variety of different approaches for athletes in the lead ...