Sea Swimming – Effects of the Tide
That’s exactly what I did today. It was a fairly high tide when I started so I swam along just outside of the groynes. As you can see from the GPS track in the adjacent image I kept a fairly straight track and counted off groynes as I went until I got to the fourth groyne with a ‘triangle’ on the end post. I then turned around and headed back.
It was until I got back and looked at my speed for the swim that I noticed the current must have been going in the opposite direction today, North to South for a change. As you can see from the green line in the graph below, I averaged around 2.7mph whilst heading south, but immediately slowed to around 2mph on the way back.
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