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A series of "Hong Kong hot topics" and the "most" of the ocean...
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The champion of "flying" in the ocean, "flying fish"
- Starting from the topic that "Hong Kong female flying fish" Siobhan won Hong Kong's first world swimming champion
On the evening of December 16, 2021, at the short pool World Championships held in Abu Dhabi, Siobhan, 24, from Hong Kong, broke the world record with a time of 1 minute 50.31 and won the women's 200m freestyle champion. Siobhan was born in Hong Kong in 1997. His father is Irish and his mother is from Hong Kong. Siobhan began to learn swimming at the age of 4. As early as the Tokyo Olympic Games in July 2021, Siobhan won silver medals in the women's 200-meter freestyle and women's 100-meter freestyle, becoming the Hong Kong athlete who won the most medals in a single event in the history of the Olympic Games.
In the finals on the evening of December 16, 2021, Siobhan, who started from the fifth lane, took the lead all the way and finally won the championship by nearly two seconds ahead of Rebecca Smith, the second Canadian player. With a margin of 0.12 seconds, Siobhan broke the world record of 1:50:43 held by Swedish female athlete Sarah Schystrom. Siobhan became first Hong Kong swimming world champion. Hong Kong people are proud to call Siobhan "Hong Kong female flying fish". Siobhan, a female flying fish in Hong Kong, has written a brilliant page for Hong Kong's swimming industry and also drew a perfect end to Hong Kong's sports industry in 2021. People's eyes fell from Siobhan, the "Hong Kong female flying fish", to the real "flying fish" in the ocean. The title of "Hong Kong female flying fish" comes from a fish that occasionally appears in Hong Kong waters - "flying fish".
There are many magical creatures in the sea. Not only the fish in fairy tales can fly, but also the ability to fly is not unique to birds and insects. Some creatures in the ocean have the ability to "fly", such as squid and manta rays, but "flying fish" is the fastest of all creatures in the ocean that can "fly". Schools of flying fish can be seen in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean. People often see flying fish gliding in groups on the sea. The shape of the flying fish is very strange. Its long pectoral fin extends to the tail, which is very similar to the wings of birds. These fish are very small. Most of them are as big as the palm of a human hand. The largest one is about 60 cm. In fact, flying fish can't fly, they can only glide.
People see flying fish can "fly" because of the tail fin of flying fish. The tail fin of flying fish is scissor shaped, with short upper leaves and long lower leaves. When it hits the water horizontally, it will produce strong force. With the help of the flapping force of the tail fin, the flying fish rose into the air and began to slide. The pectoral fins of flying fish flap like the wings of birds, and the pectoral fins of flying fish only play the role of gliding. Before gliding, the flying fish is in the water, the pectoral and ventral fins are close to the sides of the body, and the tail swings violently to form an S-shaped watermark, so as to push the body out of the water. After leaving the water, the flying fish immediately opened its pectoral fins and glided in the wind. At the moment when it is about to enter the water, the flying fish beats the water surface with its tail to make it jump out of the water again and slide continuously. Flying fish can glide at a speed of more than 15 meters per second at an altitude of 3 to 5 meters or even 10 meters from the sea surface. The stronger flying fish can glide 180 meters at a time, with a continuous glide time of 43 seconds and a continuous glide distance of 400 meters.
In fact, the ability to fly fish to "fly" has no special significance, and the "fly" of flying fish is not as beautiful as we think. Flying fish are the fish that live in the upper layer of the ocean and are the prey of all kinds of fierce fish. Predators in the sea are natural enemies of flying fish. Flying fish usually do not jump out of the water. Only when they are attacked by the enemy or stimulated by the sound of the ship's engine will flying fish show this ability to survive. However, flying fish's "flying" is not absolutely safe. In addition to being caught by seabirds flying in the air, sometimes flying fish will fall on the island or crash into rocks and die. Sometimes, they even landed on the deck of a sailboat. Coupled with human predation, flying fish are actually very fragile.
Flying fish are warm water fish that feed on small plankton and like to live in groups. In April and May every year, flying fish produce "offspring" for reproduction. During the breeding season, flying fish gather into huge schools of fish and go to waters suitable for spawning. They will look for floating objects on the sea. Seaweed, aquatic plants, and floating algae in shallow water are suitable beds for small flying fish. The eggs of flying fish are light and small, and there are filiform protuberances on the surface of the eggs, which are very suitable for hanging on algae. On the other hand, flying fish have strong fecundity, which is also an important reason why this species can survive so far.
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