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Freshwater waves "higher, more ragged" than salt water? (from an NPR story) (old.reddit.com)
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The original was posted on /r/sailing by /u/oberlausitz on 2025-11-10 22:11:14+00:00.

In a segment about the Edmund Fitzgerald (listening to the song now) NPR mentioned that freshwater waves "can be worse and more ragged because of the lower density/salinity".

The engineer in me finds that hard to believe although I found lots of anecdotes about waves on the Great Lakes being worse because of reflections and other non-salinity root causes.

Any input from the sailors?

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