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The Malibu Rapids forms the entrance to Princess Louisa Inlet and is also connected to the Jervis Inlet.The tidal flow of both inlets pass through this narrow and shallow passage that creates a fast moving (approximately 9 kn or 17 km/h) and strong tidal rapids during the peak flows.
A shíshálh village known as asxwikwu was historically located at the mouth of the inlet. [2]In June of 1792, George Vancouver, charting the BC Coast in a search for the Northwest Passage, explored Jervis Inlet to its end, and found the entrance to Princess Louisa Inlet but did not enter as the tide was ebbing through Malibu Rapids at the time.
Malibu is a locality in the Canadian province of British Columbia's Sunshine Coast district. This place may also be referred to as Malibu Islet and Malibu Rapids. [1] This was the site of the Malibu Club, formerly a private resort which is today a Young Life camp. [2] Malibu is at the mouth of the Princess Louisa Inlet and Swaywelat Sechelt ...
Although rip tide is a misnomer, in areas of significant tidal range, rip currents may only occur at certain stages of the tide, when the water is shallow enough to cause the waves to break over a sand bar, but deep enough for the broken wave to flow over the bar.
At peak flows, standing waves, whitecaps, and whirlpools form at the rapids even in calm weather. The narrows are also the site of Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park. Each day, tides force large amounts of seawater through the narrows—760,000,000 m 3 (200 × 10 ^ 9 US gal) of water on a 3 m (9.8 ft) tide. The difference in water levels on ...
Tide range is the vertical distance between the highest high tide and lowest low tide. The size of the lunar tide compared to the solar tide (which comes once every 12 hours) is generally about 2 to 1, but the actual proportion along any particular shore depends on the location, orientation, and shape of the local bay or estuary.
A rip tide, or riptide, is a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides become the strongest where ...
Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2, also known as Old Brass Brains, [1] was a special-purpose mechanical computer that uses gears, pulleys, chains, and other mechanical components to compute the height and time of high and low tides for specific locations. The machine can perform tide calculations much faster than a person could do with pencil and ...