This paper first proposes a refraction phenomenon of the swimmer's “body
head
separation”in the swimming pool; and then,as the bedding,it introduces the
strict image position
of the underwater object refracting through the water surface. Using the
knowledge of plane
geometry and trigonometric function,the visual separation distance function
of the underwater
object's image and object ( that is,the swimmer's “body head”) in the eyes
of the observer are
derived,and the actual observation is verified by the data. By using the
functions
deduced and graphs drawed,the paper finds that the visual separation
distance between the
underwater image and the object will increase with the increase of the
visual angle and the
distance of the observer,but it will first increase and then de- crease
until it tends to zero with
the increase of the depth of the object point. Several special cases are
discussed, and it is
pointed out that the analytical results and the numerical method of the
visual separation distance
have their own advantages and disadvantages.