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Giant Ocean Vortex Discovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the holy-overstatement-batman dept.

Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "Dubbed a "death trap" by a team of scientists from The University of Western Australia Murdoch University, CSIRO and three American, French and Spanish research institutions, a 200km in diameter and 1000m deep ocean vortex has been discovered off the Rottnest Canyon. Visible from space, scientists claim is has the potential to affect the local climate and the climate further abroad, the vortex is acting as a "death trap" by sucking in fish larvae from closer to the shore."

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  1. Re:As seen from space.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can they say something like 'visible from space', and not show the image.

  2. Re:This must be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have a better idea - let's blame climate cycles that take eons between extremes instead of man-induced global warming that's spiked like a punks hairdoo in 100 years and is only going in one direction. That'll show those darn know-it-all PhDs.

  3. we promise... by JeremyALogan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I absolutely despise it when we get quote like "you can see it from space", but then they don't give us any pictures. Why no pictures people?

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