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This article is about the water movement. For other uses, see Whirlpool (disambiguation).
Saltstraumen whirlpool
Saltstraumen whirlpool
A whirlpool in a glass of water
A whirlpool in a glass of water
A small whirlpool in Tionesta Creek in the Allegheny National Forest
A small whirlpool in Tionesta Creek in the Allegheny National Forest

A whirlpool is a swirling body of water usually produced by ocean tides. Saltstraumen is a sound with a strong tidal current located in Nordland 30 km east of the city of Bodø, Norway. The Allegheny National Water is a common Chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of Life. Characteristics A tide is a repeated cycle of sea level changes in the following stages Over several hours the water rises or advances up a beach in the flood The vast majority of whirlpools are not very powerful. More powerful ones are more properly termed maelstroms. A maelstrom (or malström/malstrøm in the Scandinavian languages) is a very powerful Whirlpool; a large swirling body of water Vortex is the proper term for any whirlpool that has a downdraft. V erification of the O rigins of R otation in T ornadoes Ex periment or VORTEX, is a field project that seeks to understand how a An updraft or downdraft ( air pocket) is the vertical movement of Air as a Weather related phenomenon (Technically, these approximate to a 'free vortex', in which the tangential velocity (v) increases as the centre line is approached, so that the angular momentum (rv) is constant). V erification of the O rigins of R otation in T ornadoes Ex periment or VORTEX, is a field project that seeks to understand how a Very small whirlpools can easily be seen when a bath or a sink is draining, but these are produced in a very different manner from those in nature. Smaller whirlpools also appear at the base of many waterfalls. A waterfall is usually a geological formation resulting from water often in the form of a Stream, flowing over an Erosion -resistant rock In the case of powerful waterfalls, like Niagara Falls, these whirlpools can be quite strong. The Niagara Falls are massive Waterfalls on the Niagara River, straddling the international border separating the Canadian province of Ontario The most powerful whirlpools are created in narrow shallow straits with fast flowing water.

The Moskstraumen off the Lofoten islands in Norway is generally considered the world's most powerful whirlpool, along with Saltstraumen which reaches speeds of 40 km/h. The Moskstraumen (popularly known as the Maelstrom) is a system of tidal eddies and Whirlpools one of the strongest in the world Lofoten is an Archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Saltstraumen is a sound with a strong tidal current located in Nordland 30 km east of the city of Bodø, Norway. The Meilnort has been measured with a speed of the water current of up to 27. 7 km/h, and the Old Sow has been measured with a speed of up to 27. Old Sow is the name of the largest Tidal Whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere located off the southwestern shore of Deer Island, New Brunswick 6 km/h . The Naruto whirlpool has a speed of 20 km/h. The is a tidal Whirlpool in the Naruto strait, a channel between Naruto in Tokushima and Awaji Island in Hyōgo, Powerful whirlpools have killed unlucky seafarers, but their power tends to be exaggerated by laymen. There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a whirlpool. Tales like those by Paul the Deacon, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe are entirely fictional. Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, The closest equivalent might have been the short-lived whirlpool that sucked in a portion of Lake Peigneur in New Iberia, Louisiana, USA after a drilling mishap in 1980. Lake Peigneur ( Cajun French for "comber" relating to someone who works with Wool in the process of weaving fabric is located in the U New Iberia ( French: La Nouvelle-Ibérie, Spanish: Nueva Iberia) is a city in and the Parish seat of Iberia Parish, The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This was not a naturally-occurring whirlpool, but a man-made disaster caused by breaking through the roof of a salt mine. The lake then behaved like a gigantic bathtub being drained, until the mine filled and the water levels equalized. Although some boats and semi trailers were pulled into it in the classic whirlpool stereotype, no human lives were lost.

In popular imagination, but only rarely in reality, whirlpools can have the dangerous effect of destroying boats. A boat is a Watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane on water and provide transport over it In the 8th century, Paul the Deacon, who had lived among the Belgii, described tidal bores and the maelstrom for a Mediterranean audience unused to such violent tidal surges:

Not very far from this shore. Paul the Deacon (c 720 &ndash 13 April probably 799 also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred and Cassinensis (i A tidal bore (or just bore, or eagre) is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves of water that travel A maelstrom (or malström/malstrøm in the Scandinavian languages) is a very powerful Whirlpool; a large swirling body of water . . toward the western side, on which the ocean main lies open without end, is that very deep whirlpool of waters which we call by its familiar name "the navel of the sea. " This is said to suck in the waves and spew them forth again twice every day. . .
They say there is another whirlpool of this kind between the island of Britain and the province of Galicia, and with this fact the coasts of the Seine region and of Aquitaine agree, for they are filled twice a day with such sudden inundations that any one who may by chance be found only a little inward from the shore can hardly get away. Galicia (occasionally Galiza) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
I have heard a certain high nobleman of the Gauls relating that a number of ships, shattered at first by a tempest, were afterwards devoured by this same Charybdis. Gaul (Gallia was the Roman name for the region of Western Europe comprising present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western In Greek mythology, Kharybdis or Charybdis (kəˈrɪbdɨs in Greek, Χάρυβδις) was a Sea monster, the daughter of Poseidon And when one only out of all the men who had been in these ships, still breathing, swam over the waves, while the rest were dying, he came, swept by the force of the receding waters, up to the edge of that most frightful abyss. And when now he beheld yawning before him the deep chaos whose end he could not see, and half dead from very fear, expected to be hurled into it, suddenly in a way that he could not have hoped he was cast upon a certain rock and sat him down. — Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards, i. 6

In "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), first published in 1869-1870 in the magazine "Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation", Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote :

«Maelstrom! Maelstrom!» s'écriait-il! Le Maelstrom! Un nom plus effrayant dans une situation plus effrayante pouvait-il retentir à notre oreille?

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whirlpool

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  1. a rapidly rotating body of water; a vortex
  2. turmoil, or agitated excitement
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