"If you remember, King Canute of Denmark tried to stop the tides from coming in," the mayor said.
"It would be nice if we could stop the tides from coming in, but King Canute couldn't do it — and neither can we".
Vigorous tides pushed the contamination downriver while saltwater tides from Newark Bay that were just as strong pulled the dioxin miles upriver.
Brady Miller, 42, and his wife, Deanna, 38, are renters who have been going to the Tides from Seattle for about 15 years.
Surrounding the framework will be hundreds of 30-footlong plastic tubes, each filled with about 100 tons of sand to keep high tides from eroding the foundations.
Re "Venice Turns to Future to Rescue Its Past" (Feb. 22): The article describes large-scale efforts to stop rising tides from flooding Venice.
"It would be nice if we could stop the tides from coming in, but King Canute couldn't do it, and neither can we," the mayor declared, as listeners scratched their heads.
All that its position achieves is interference with the free-running tides from north to south, creating the sort of lee which is not sufficiently interesting for people under sail.
Tidal movements are complicated by northward-moving flood tides from the Pacific coast of Washington entering the strait during part of the time when a conflicting westward-flowing ebb tide is going out.
To get a wider viewing the film must then fight its way past more typical summer fare like "Thor" from Paramount Pictures and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" from Walt Disney.
The author makes little fuss, unconcerned to transmit delight, amazement or urgency as he unfolds the story of how humans have come to grips with the science of tides, from Aristotle to the researchers of today.
