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Why Japan's Tsunami Triggered an Enormous Whirlpool (Interesting stuff)
FOX News.com ^
| March 11, 2011
| Stephanie Pappas
Posted on 03/12/2011 5:01:15 PM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:01:18 PM PST
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Kaslin
To: Kaslin
I saw Old Sow on the history channel the other day.
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:03:08 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Kaslin
In larger area pictures there’s a breakwater on one side so when the water went rushing by it caused the water to swirl behind the breakwater and where it was open to the sea.
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:09:11 PM PST
by
DB
To: Kaslin
Anybody know what ever happened to that boat?
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:09:53 PM PST
by
ladyvet
( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
To: ladyvet
I was thinking the same thing.
To: ladyvet
It probably was destroyed
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:14:54 PM PST
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
As seen in this widely distributed photo, the whirlpool was inside a harbor. There is a seawall just out of the picture to the right and you can see it in this Google Maps view. Note that the trapezoidal shaped pier is submerged.
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:19:01 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: Kaslin
Old Sow off Deer Island New Brunswick occurs with some regularity. Sometimes its many smaller ones the locals call piglets.
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:19:19 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: dr_lew
Your photo shows a larger area
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:21:37 PM PST
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: cripplecreek
I’m sorry, but what, or who is Old Sow?
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:23:10 PM PST
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
A regularly occurring whirlpool off Deer Island New Brunswick.
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:28:39 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:34:57 PM PST
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
Your photo shows a larger area Why do think so?
Here's a Google maps view approximating the view of the photo, but a little wider to show the sea wall. Note the observation tower which is just out of view to the left in the photo.
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:35:48 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: cripplecreek
You must have read my mind. Your picture showed up before question post
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:37:00 PM PST
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Kaslin
Looks like a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean. Very scary.
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03/12/2011 5:37:00 PM PST
by
DejaJude
To: Kaslin
re: “Whirlpools have a big impact on the human imagination,” Ludwin said. “They're very notable and very frightening.”
I can vouch for the truth of that statement! Thirty plus years ago I was on a canoe trip down the Wacissa River near Tallahassee, FL. We were not familiar with the river and took a wrong turn that led us off along a tributary of some sort. Everything looked fine to us until we rounded a little curve and realized it looked like the waterway ended just ahead. Hmmmm . . . There was all sorts of trash and debris floating on the surface and as you got closer you realized it was moving. Around. In ever tighter circles! Wow, talk about pucker factor! We realized we were looking at a huge whirlpool in the river!
Turns out the tributary we had wandered onto went underground there to a cave and the water going in ends up in the Gulf of Mexico some miles west of there.
That was scary.
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posted on
03/12/2011 5:47:40 PM PST
by
jwparkerjr
(I would rather lose with Sarah than win with a RINO!)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
03/12/2011 6:30:02 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Palin 2012: don't retreat, just restock [chg'd to comply w/ The Civility in Discourse Act of 2011])
To: Kaslin
Also note this
video ( currently linked to the Google news hits for [ whirlpool tsunami ] . ) At 0:25 the view is toward the west, and you can see the sea wall there with a little projection on it and some boat slips to the right of that, which match the structures seen in the Google Maps view I linked, bearing in mind that the area beyond the sea wall is submerged.
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posted on
03/12/2011 6:37:38 PM PST
by
dr_lew
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
03/12/2011 6:39:06 PM PST
by
BenKenobi
(Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
To: Kaslin
It was Godzilla swimming in circles.
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