SOLUTION: A shark is swimming 28 feet below sea level. If the angle of depression from a boat on the water to the shark is 19 degrees, what is the horizontal distance between the boat and t

Question 1201702: A shark is swimming 28 feet below sea level. If the angle of depression from a boat on the water to the shark is 19 degrees, what is the horizontal distance between the boat and the shark?
Found 2 solutions by mananth, ikleyn:
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

tan 19 degrees = 28/x
x = 28/tan 19 degrees
=81.31 ft
81.31 ft
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Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.

There is such effect as "refraction of light in water",

which changes the entire consideration.

So, if follow right Physics, the solution should be TOTALLY different.

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