That reminds me of reading John McPhee’s interesting account of riding on barges along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. He told of the phenomenon where if your barge gets too close to the river bank, the hydrodynamics are such that you can get “sucked” right into the bank.
That reminds me of reading John McPhee’s interesting account of riding on barges along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. He told of the phenomenon where if your barge gets too close to the river bank, the hydrodynamics are such that you can get “sucked” right into the bank.
This may also have been a factor in the Ever Stuck blocking the Suez canal.