Drift Trajectories of a Floating Human Body Simulated in a Hydraulic Model of Puget Sound

1 January 1994

journal article
case report
Published by ASTM International in Journal of Forensic Sciences

Vol. 39 (1), 231-240
https://doi.org/10.1520/jfs13590j

Abstract

After a young man jumped off a 221-foot (67 meters) high bridge, the drift of the body that beached 20 miles (32 km) away at Alki Point in Seattle, Washington was simulated with a hydraulic model. Simulations for the appropriate time period were performed

Keywords

FORENSIC SCIENCE
HUMAN REMAINS
HYDRAULIC MODELS
PUGET SOUND
AQUEOUS TRANSPORT

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Operating characteristics of an oceanographic model of Puget Sound
EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1955

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