# Water draining at equator. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [October 16, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835 "2012-10-16T01:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835/1 "2012-10-16T01:08:04Z")
Cecil’s [Column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/149/do-bathtubs-drain-counterclockwise-in-the-northern-hemisphere) on Coriolis effect. A BBC video from the equator. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835/2 "2012-10-16T03:21:25Z")
[Here’s a link](http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html) that shows how the trick is done. It must be the same guy because both the guy on BBC and the guy in my link got the direction of the Coriolis effect wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835/3 "2012-10-16T18:11:27Z")
If you look at both the picture and the video, the bowl appears to be the same. It looks like it might be the same guy. He’s probably been running that scam for years. Hey, it works, why do something different? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835/4 "2012-10-17T03:16:33Z")
I was in Nanyuki in Kenya in July last year. That same bloke was there scamming tourists. ---
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835/5 "2012-10-18T12:46:04Z")
> [@Indian](#): > > Cecil’s [Column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/149/do-bathtubs-drain-counterclockwise-in-the-northern-hemisphere) on Coriolis effect. > > A BBC video from the equator. Sad to see the BBC falling for this. American networks, I could understand. Powers &8^] ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835/6 "2012-10-18T12:55:23Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I was in Nanyuki in Kenya in July last year. That same bloke was there scamming tourists. How is this any different to a busker with a magic show? If he’s entertaining and the tourists are glad to pay then good on him. Anyone expecting scientific accuracy from a show like that is deluding them selves. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-draining-at-equator/637835/7 "2012-10-18T13:29:15Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > How is this any different to a busker with a magic show? If he’s entertaining and the tourists are glad to pay then good on him. Anyone expecting scientific accuracy from a show like that is deluding them selves. Yes. But BBC could have provided a disclaimer. All their readers are not Dopers.😃