Caught on video: Whirlpool fanatic swimming inside ocean vortex before similar filming trip cost him his life. #01 - "Ocean Force One", a former military airplane was converted into a research platform to conduct aerial surveys Photo credits: The Ocean Cleanup #02 - A team of researcher embarked on the airplane for the first ever aerial surveys of a garbage patch Photo credits: The Ocean Cleanup #03 - The airplane was fitted with multiple sensors, including a LiDar Photo credits: The Ocean Cleanup Many stories tell of ships being sucked into a maelstrom, although only smaller craft are actually in danger. Posted by timothy on Monday June 05, 2006 @08:27PM from the holy-overstatement-batman dept.

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Jacob Cockle's whirlpool videos have been viewed more than 2million times Reblog. 17 September 2018. Business Insider. Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer One of the ocean’s weirdest currents is the Great Whirl, a giant clockwise eddy that emerges every summer off the coast of Somalia. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area measuring more than 1.6 million square kilometers, but it's just part of the North Pacific Gyre, an ocean region where currents collect plastic. Share. Kevin Loria.

The swirling waters shift sea-surface temperatures, influencing moisture carried to Asia by monsoon winds.

Kevin Loria. The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is almost the size of Queensland — here's what it looks like.

[citation needed] In narrow ocean straits with fast flowing water, whirlpools are often caused by tides. Somewhere along the coast of East Africa is a giant ocean vortex NASA scientists couldn't research well until they began to look into the satellite data covering 23 years. Giant Ocean Vortex Discovered 141. Vortex is the proper term for a whirlpool that has a downdraft.

Tweet. The information they obtained revealed so much more about the Great Whirl, including its boundaries and size that makes it much larger than previously thought.

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(Inside Science) -- A giant whirlpool off the east coast of Africa is even bigger than previously thought, on average larger than the state of Colorado, satellite data now reveals.The Great Whirl is a clockwise-spinning vortex that starts to form every April off the coast of Somalia, when winds blowing across the Indian Ocean change direction from west to east.

Scientists probing the Earth's interior have found a large reservoir of water equal to the volume of the Arctic Ocean beneath eastern Asia.

The giant garbage vortex in the Pacific Ocean is over twice the size of Texas — here's what it looks like. 2018-09-08T14:46:00Z The letter F. An envelope.