I failed all my science courses, I don’t understand much about science but why doesn’t the water just… move like when you jump in normally?
In: Planetary Science
Water is sticky to itself. When you go in slow it moves around. Now if you slap a pool of water you feel it. Slaping harder and harder it will fight back more and more. The faster you hit water, the faster it will hit back. It doesn’t have time to move around you and pull itself apart. Fast enough and it will forget it’s a liquid for a brief moment.
This is is called surface tension
and can actually be removed from areas of water. Two example I know of are
I believe where divers land have little jets of water “breaking” the surface tension
This is increased by the stillness of the body of water.
It can be reduced with messing with the stillness
1. With sufficient bubbles you can make non buoyant water with no hope of getting out cause you can’t push off the water like normal and you sink like a rock.
2. Certain areas near the ocean where there is like a rock bowl formation. It is nice and a small pool of water connecting to the ocean in low tide. But when the tide comes it is a raging moshpit of waves causing seafoam to accumulate causing a similar situation to 1 with not buoyant turbulent flow up top and waves crashing into rocks.
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