In some countries, there are still people using dynamite to catch fish. This practice is incredibly destructive, not just to adult fish but to the entire marine ecosystem. A blast Keep reading
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Underwater Explosions
As dangerous as explosions are in air, they are even more destructive in water. Because air is a compressible fluid, some part of an explosion’s energy is directed into air Keep reading
Explosions Underwater
Underwater explosions are, in general, much more dangerous than those in air. This video shows an underwater blast at 30,000 fps. During the initial blast, a hot sphere of gas Keep reading
Underwater Explosions
As powerful as explosions can be above ground, they are even more dangerous underwater. Since water, unlike air, is incompressible, the pressure wave at the front of an underwater explosion Keep reading
Physics Tattoos
This is a man with great commitment to fluid dynamics. He writes: This, on my leg, is the incompressible form of the conservation of mass equation in a fluid, also Keep reading