Posted on 04/12/2011 9:18:36 PM PDT by TaraP
It is not ruled out that Provda made the whole story up.
Whirlpools
Where they occur: Off the coast of Japan, Norway, the USA and Scotland
Max size: 75m (250ft) in diameter – Old Sow, USA
Max speed: 27.8kmph (17.3mph) - Moskstraumen off the coast of Norway
Casualties: Tidal whirlpools do not have enough power to capsize boats, although the vortex could easily drown a swimmer or diver
As ocean tides rise and fall, they sometimes produce rotating currents known as whirlpools. Some whirlpools have a downward pull, known as a vortex.
Japan’s Naruto whirlpool is one of the world’s most famous examples. Found in the strait which connects the Seto Inland Sea to the Pacific Ocean, the Naruto whirlpool has the third fastest current in the world, at 20kmph (12.4mph), and a vortex of up to 20m (65ft) in diameter. Water rushes through the strait four times a day, creating a huge swirling whirlpool that attracts many tourists and observers.
The whirlpool with the world’s fastest current is the Moskstraumen, off the coast of Norway - its speed is almost matched by the wonderfully named Old Sow, which is between New Brunswick and Maine in the USA.
http://www.yourdiscovery.com/earth/water/whirlpools/index.shtml
I think I knew this in 1963 from the books my Mom gave me in RE;the ocean and currents, whales, fish and freaky glowing bottom dwellers..
Sorry.. my bad all of the bottom dwellers are in charge of the Republican Party..oopps
It’s the Rove weather machine.
Space aliens!
Obama spin machine?
Quick, somebody put the drain plug back in!
They are symbolic of the impending death of rational thought and scientific method.
Sorta like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot!
I wonder if these are anywhere near the mysterious, so called, Bermuda Triangle?
They don’t fool me. That giant sucking sound isn’t a whirlpool. It’s Obama’s Budget Plan.
I was wondering why the English of this thing sounded so weird, but then I noticed it was from Pravda.
Nah. These were on maps of the sea when people thought the world was flat.
It’s Global Warming, clearly. Sorry, make that Climate Change.
Even if it forgot to take something into account like Siberia, something as insignificant as that, it just further backs up the science.
Could that be that great sucking sound Ross Perot talked about a few years back?
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