The sea abounds with different kinds of living creatures such as fish, tortoise, crocodile, eel, dolphin, whale, etc. Do you know with what speed these animals can swim?
The sailfish swims the fastest amongst all the aquatic animals with a speed of up to 110 kms per hour. Next is the sword fish with a maximum speed of 95 kms per hour. The tunny and the rainbow trout can swim at a maximum speed of 75 kms per hour. The speed of dolphin goes up to 65 kms in an hour.
Besides these, the swimming speed per hour of some other aquatic animals are: tarpon, 55 kms; shark, 45 kms; trout, 35 kms; salmon 25 kms, eel, whale and pike, 15 kms. Cray fish, carp, tench, perch, octopus, etc. swim at a speed of less than 10 kms per hour. These are not the normal speeds but are the maximum recorded speeds of sea animals.