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Slack water

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Slack water, also known as 'the stand of the tide', is a short period in a body of tidal water when the water is completely unstressed, and there is no movement either way in the tidal stream, and which occurs before the direction of the tidal stream reverses. [1]

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Awake (TV series)

Awake is an American television police procedural fantasy drama that originally aired on NBC for one season from March 1 to May 24, 2012.

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Charles Rowland Twidale

Charles Rowland Twidale is an Australian geomorphologist active at the University of Adelaide.

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Gulf St Vincent

Gulf St Vincent is a large inlet of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Menai Strait

The Menai Strait (Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.

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Nautical chart

A nautical chart is a graphic representation of a maritime area and adjacent coastal regions.

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Point Lonsdale

Point Lonsdale is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia.

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Point Nepean

Point Nepean marks the southern point of The Rip (the entrance to Port Phillip) and the most westerly point of the Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria, Australia.

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Port Phillip

Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay), is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne.

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Primera Angostura

Primera Angostura is a sound of the Strait of Magellan in the Chilean region of Magallanes.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.

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Stability theory

In mathematics, stability theory addresses the stability of solutions of differential equations and of trajectories of dynamical systems under small perturbations of initial conditions.

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Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar (مضيق جبل طارق, Estrecho de Gibraltar) is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa.

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The Rip

"The Rip", also known as "The Heads", is a dangerous stretch of water in Victoria, Australia, connecting Port Phillip and Bass Strait.

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Tidal atlas

A tidal atlas or a tidal stream atlas is used to predict the direction and speed of tidal currents.

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Tidal diamond

Tidal diamonds are symbols on British admiralty charts that indicate the direction and speed of tidal streams.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Visibility

In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned.

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Dodge tide, Slack tide.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_water

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