Comment on Water Snek

Ch3rry314@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s the tidal current throwing the swimmer around. They swam along the same heading the entire time.

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• Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s just really hard to follow google maps navigation when there’s no roads and waves.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, there were probably waves.

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    • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      +1 for pedantry.

      I’ve edited my comment to add an Oxford comma, because I know everyone likes those.

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      • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That's not an Oxford comma. Oxford commas (also known as serial commas) are for lists that contain more than three terms.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Now it’s worse.

        “Waves and no road” is what you’re looking for.

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  • Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Could also be currents from tides. This trip would have taken hours, and the tides around great britain are weird.

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d like to know what map projection bends a straight line into that

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  • Ch3rry314@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I said I was dumb.

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Me too, but now I want that wavy map projection

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• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Perhaps even losing orientation

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unless they’re a heaving idiot looking to be arrested and sectioned under the mental health act, they swim next to a support boat, who give them directions and are in communication with other vessels. The Channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the path would be more erratic if that was the case

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