Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — How Fast Fishes Swim. [ARTICLE]

How Fast Fishes Swim.

Now that every efTort is being made to increase tho speed of ocean steamers, it is interesting to know the speed with which different fish can pass through the water. For long-distance swimming tho shark may do said to hold the rec rd, as he can outstrip the swiftest ships, apparently without effort, swimming and playing around them, and ever on thoJ«okout for prey. Any humon being falling overboard in shavk-freqneuted waters has very little ehatjocio escape, so rapid is the aotion of the shark, the monster of the deep. The dolphin, another fastswimming fish, is credited with a speed of considerable over twenty, miles an hour. For short distances the salmon can outstrip every other fish, accomplishing its twontv-five miles an hour with ease. Tho Spanish mackeral is one of the fastest of fool fishes, and cuts the water like a yacht.—lndustrial World.