A Field Survey of Waves and Currents in Seabathing Area facing Open Sea

Shigeo Takahashi; Kojiro Suzuki; Tomomitsu Okamura; Hironobu Miura; Syunji Sakamoto; Masahiko Kobayashi

doi:10.2208/prooe.13.741

PROCEEDINGS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING IN THE OCEAN

Online ISSN : 1884-8265
Print ISSN : 0912-7348
ISSN-L : 0912-7348

A Field Survey of Waves and Currents in Seabathing Area facing Open Sea

Shigeo Takahashi, Kojiro Suzuki, Tomomitsu Okamura, Hironobu Miura, Syunji Sakamoto, Masahiko Kobayashi

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Keywords: seabathing, sea accidents, people's safety

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1997 Volume 13 Pages 741-746

DOI https://doi.org/10.2208/prooe.13.741

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Abstract

Seabathing is a very popular sea activity in Japan. However many people were involved in accidents during bathing, and unfortunately, over one hundred people were killed each year. A series of studies are being conducted to investigate the causes of accidents and to improve the safety of the activity. In this report, waves and currents, and movements of bathing people driven by them are measured in a coast of a small island in the Pacific Ocean.

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