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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. The Malestrom? by TFGeditor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Holy Edgar Allen Poe, Batman!

    http://www.online-literature.com/poe/26/

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  2. Satellite Image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Rottnest Island:

    http://maps.google.com/?ll=-32.026706,115.438843&s pn=2.258667,5.152588&t=k&om=1

  3. Bah, this has been known to exist for 3000 years! by Seoulstriker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's Charybdis!

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  4. Incorrect units by WillerZ · · Score: 1, Interesting
    spinning at speeds up to 5kph


    What's that in radians per second?
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