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This
complicates our simple view: The wind may not stop completely at the end of
the fetch, it may only weaken or change direction. As we end the section on
wind waves, therefore, we see that we can have waves that seem like wind
waves because they exist in a windy region, but they are actually swell that
are traveling faster than the wind and therefore are not really affected by
the wind. They may, if fact, already be taking on swell characteristics.
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