Where is the greatest resistance?

Thanks all for the comments, and thanks to Steve for the great article (just starting to read, but at first look at the pictures of the marine mammals, I like to be the Florida manatee :D). Water surface tension and wave formation make a lot of sense. I wonder if the wave formation factor applies more to good swimmers than the bad ones, because a good swimmer can make "good" underwater waves for himself, while for someone who can't swim well, he can't move much anyway, whether on surface or underwater. Does this sound like a reasonable conjecture? :rolleyes:

Thanks all for the comments, and thanks to Steve for the great article (just starting to read, but at first look at the pictures of the marine mammals, I like to be the Florida manatee :D). Water surface tension and wave formation make a lot of sense. I wonder if the wave formation factor applies more to good swimmers than the bad ones, because a good swimmer can make "good" underwater waves for himself, while for someone who can't swim well, he can't move much anyway, whether on surface or underwater. Does this sound like a reasonable conjecture? :rolleyes: