How Does A 'Box' Swim?

David Catchpoole, B.Ag.Sc.(Hons.) Ph.D. discusses How does a 'box' swim? in Creation Magazine Vol. 25 No.3
'.....As Science journal commented recently, 'One look at the aptly named boxfish, and you might expect it to swim as well as a barn would fly.' (Box Swimmers, Science 299(5608):817,2003.)

In reality, boxfish are able to swim extremely smoothly. This is even more remarkable considering where they live - reefs washed up by highly turbulent and unpredictable waters. But even so......boxfish make only the slightest of deviations from their straight swimming paths, as they correct for unseen eddies and turbulence.

'.......How do they so efficiently keep to their swimming trajectory in swirling, surging waters? According to recent research, the boxy shape is a major reason for their 'hydrodynamic stability'. Using a model of the boxfish, Lactophrys triqueter (also known commonly as the 'smooth trunkfish'), in a water tunnel, the researchers found that, as the model was tilted, its boxy shape changed the water flow, setting up counter-rotating currents (vortices). These effectively act as self-correcting forces so that the fish is automatically stabilized.......These finding excited the researchers, who recognized that this same phenomenon is a hallmark of delta-wing aircraft such as the Concorde and the space shuttle,(...generate lift through vortex generation).

This great phenomena of sea life is also apparent in our own human cells when given glyconutrients which were discovered by the scientists at Mannatech Inc. Glyconutrients are vital nutrients with the amazing ability to maintain and balance your immune system helping you to achieve optimum health and prevent even the most insidious of today's killer diseases.