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a stretch of water without current or movement
suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless - the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide
How To Use slack water In A Sentence
- It is also evident that mudstone drapes formed during slack water stages at specific periods, whereas fine-sandstone drapes were formed in other periods.
- I have never found out when slack water is at Wolf Rock.
- slack water
- The dive is good at any state of the tide, but be cautious of the stronger north-east/south-west currents on the seaward side of the reef during periods of spring tides - either stay inshore or time your dive for slack water.
- He used pole and maggot in the marginal slack water for a mixed net of small roach and perch scaling 3lb 9oz.
- During slack water, tugs tow freight barges and rafts of logs through the narrows with scant room to manoeuvre.
- I powered past the bloaters, and ducked into the next canyon to find slack water again.
- Slack water behind the dams make migrating smolt vulnerable to predators, and turbines at the dams puree many of them. Better Red Than Dead
- Expect the main action to come the two hours either side of slack water.
- Gordon explained that the ideal tide for the Seven Stones was a low-water spring, with a good hour of slack water and the rocks exposed.
