The Secret to Much Faster Swimming

by
Rob Waugh
Daily Mail

It may be hard
to swallow for amateur swimmers, but keeping your fingers firmly
together to create an oar-style effect is not the best technique.

Instead, counter-intuitive
as it seems, keeping the fingers slightly apart like a fork apparently
makes a swimmer faster.

A study claims
that an ‘invisible web’ of water is created by spread
fingers, allowing swimmers to propel themselves with more force
– and that the technique is already used by the professionals.

‘It is
a counter-intuitive idea, the fact that you should paddle with a
fork, not with an oar,’ said researcher Adrian Bejan, a professor
of mechanical engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

The reason
is that when a solid object moves through

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