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> The tidal current in the more constricted portions of the river can reach
> almost 3 knots. The speed of the ebb and flow currents are so nearly
> matched that
> it would take a bottle dropped in the river at Albany nearly half a year
> to
> reach New York City, 150 miles downstream.
Applying some physics roughly, wouldn't that suggest that the non-tidal
portion of the Hudson River current is about 1 nm/d(150nm/180d)? Or 0.04
kts? That doesn't sound right.
-- Jim Ague
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