I does say it’s a known ocurrance, just the exact cause is not known. It’s an interesting occurance for me though.
Australians would be well advised to keep a barrel or other cylindrical object handy, just in case.
Didn’t an Australian PM go missing one day while swimming in the ocean? How do we know what happened to him? And Who (or What) will come storming ashore?
It has to be from us Americans flushing our toilets too much, causing these whirlpools in the southern hemispheres.
Al Gore is on his private jet burning more fuel than I will in my lifetime, to hold a press conference on the matter.
Americans, you wasteful bastards, stop all your flushing. If you weren’t getting hard, bumpy rides from all those Hummer trucks, your damn bladders wouldn’t need to be relieved every 11 seconds!
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Wait, why did they report the size of it in Km, but reported the depth in meters? 1000 m is one Km, right? Do they do it just because 1000m sounds more impressive than 1Km?
Holy crap, GargoyleWB, that post is cracking me up. You don’t even have to read the words and it’s funny.
A small barrel though. Large objects are, as a general rule, sucked in more rapidly.
Conventions for measuring horizontal distances vs. ocean depths*. “107 nautical miles across and 547 fathoms deep.”
Edit: *Unless we’re talking about the Mariana Trench… but let’s not go there.
Yes! Step 1 of my master plan is working!
Step 3: Profit!
Must be Taz down there doing a little snorkeling.
It’s lucky that Tasman wasn’t named something like Poon. It’s a real name. You would have the Poon Sea, and Poon Devils, from Poonia
Excerpt about Pool who died and Tasman replaced for Van Dieman. Pool, Poon it’s close. Please note the location name Pieter Nuytz Land.
Yes, perhaps it is Harold Holt. If so, I’d like to know where he’s been since 1967.
Convention perhaps? Distances are usually given in kms, while depths are usually given in metres.
Not even for 20 minutes?
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Hmm… my boss is on a photo shoot near Sydney right now. When he gets back I’ll have to ask if he was in danger of getting sucked off when he went to the beach.
Wow, kind of a personal question to ask your boss…
I read a line very like that once in an issue of F&SF. Is that line much older than 5 years?
It’s lifted from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, copyright 1990. So, about 17 years old.
Believe me, if the answer were yes, he’d call a meeting to tell everyone.