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The tiny tornadoes of water in Finnegan?s wake
As Finnegan?s flapping foils sweep through the water, they generate tiny eddies of spinning water called vortices. Different foil strokes produce different trails of vortices. (Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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