Experienced swimmers know it is relatively easy to escape the narrow channel of the fast moving water by floating and allowing it to drag you further into the ocean or by swimming alongside the shore.

The team paddles the kayaks whilst running the radar, over the carefully selected 25 kilometer course along a meltwater channel which runs down the middle of the glacier's floating ice shelf.

In particular, as a non-volatile memory device undergoes many programming cycles, charge becomes trapped in the insulator or dielectric between the floating gate and the channel region.