Shorelines
Question: Why do waves travel towards a shore no matter which way the wind
blows? Does this mean that there is a place in the centre of the ocean where the
water is still?
Answer: Shorelines are not all concentric, so if there were some still-water
source of waves, it would not be in the centre of the ocean. Anyway, still water
is not the origin of waves.
Waves travel in all directions relative to shorelines but only those that are
travelling towards a shoreline will reach it.
Those that are travelling away from or parallel to a shoreline…
