slack tide
Tide stands still
Slack tide is the brief period when tidal current stops flowing—the pause between ebb and flood, or flood and ebb, when the water is essentially still.
Boaters and divers time their activities around slack tide, when currents won't fight them: We'll launch at slack tide and let the flood carry us in.
- dead waterMotionless tidal zone
- still watersMotionless bodies of water
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- high waterMaximum tidal level
- currentDirected flow of charge
calm · pause · lull · hold steady · harbor · mooring · drop anchor · anchor · cast off · drift · estuary · channel · neap · turning · vessel · boat · waiting · glassy
- tidesebb, ebb and flow, flow, Bay of Fundy, chart datum
- low tideebb, low water, receding water, mudflats, sandbars
slack tidetidal flow
Moon-driven water movement
ebb tide · flood tide · tidal current · ebb · flood
slack tidepeak flow
Maximum exhalation speed measure
rip current · strong current · maelstrom · swift water · tidal stream
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