Hey there Bob!
BD>BD>CC> ..fact that.. fresh water at the bottom of the river -- salt
BD>BD>CC> water tends to stay on top --
BD>BD> This caught my eye.  I'd have expected salt water to dilute and
BD>BD> mix with the fresh but seek to get beneath the fresh until it does
BD>CC> I wondered about this too.. The diver said he tasted the water
BD>CC> where he found the lens and tasted no salt.
BD> Must be a logical explanation.  We frequently run into things like
BD> this that seem to "prove the exception," so it probably is exactly
BD> as was stated.  Just bugs me, wondering "Why?"  
I've tried to not comment on this, but you asked why so here I am .
Salt water is in fact more dense than fresh, and fresh water will
"float" on salt water for a time before mixing action takes place. I can
rely on my two oceanography degree's on this one as well as all the
salinity and turbidity tests I did during my college years on Puget
Sound estuaries. One possible reason that the salty taste was missing
from the bottom of the "river" (a dubious distinction in Aberdeen) is
that it may ( and I think Carl said it was) low tide...which means that
the salt water has "receded" and the fresh water is coming down the
"river" without "interference".
There's all the explaination I have for you, hope it helps...now I have
to go an whop myself for off topic posts!
chat with you soon!
hap
BD> Well, that, and not lying, or carousing around with available babes,
BD> and then draft dodging, all rolled into one!  
BD>CC> "Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything..
BD> My sentiments, exactly!  Hehheh
Let's limit the political comments as well ok?
Nuff said.
hap
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