Weddell seals foraging in open water dive toward the ocean


Question: 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.

A. What was the angle of the seal's path below the horizontal?

B. What distance did the seal cover in making this dive?

C. What was the seal's speed, in m/s?

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