Weddell seals foraging in open water dive toward the ocean bottom by swimming forward in a straight- line path tipped below the horizontal. The tracking data for one seal showed it taking 4.0 min to descend 360 m below the surface while moving 920 m horizontally. What was the angle of the seal's path below the horizontal?

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Weddell seals foraging in open water dive toward the ocean bottom by swimming forward in a straight-
line path tipped below the horizontal. The tracking data for one seal showed it taking 4.0 min to
descend 360 m below the surface while moving 920 m horizontally.
What was the angle of the seal's path below the horizontal?
Transcribed Image Text:Weddell seals foraging in open water dive toward the ocean bottom by swimming forward in a straight- line path tipped below the horizontal. The tracking data for one seal showed it taking 4.0 min to descend 360 m below the surface while moving 920 m horizontally. What was the angle of the seal's path below the horizontal?
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