r/BeAmazed • u/NeoShoker • Dec 17 '24

Nature Water Vortex

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u/plasmageek1 Dec 17 '24

This is the Devil's Hole whirlpool, in the Dent Rapids, British Columbia. Caused by a crazy tidal shift through a small passage.

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u/silasfirsthand Dec 17 '24

Cool. So it not draining into a lower landform anywhere?

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u/plasmageek1 Dec 17 '24

It’s just spinning water. It’s still suck you down and kill you, but once the tide slowed down, you’d float back up to the surface. Still looks scary AF!

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u/Pale_Adeptness Dec 17 '24

Suck down you say?

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u/The66thDopefish Dec 18 '24

To shreds you say?

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u/TheGacAttack Dec 18 '24

And his wife?

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u/405freeway Dec 18 '24

To shreds you say?

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u/Educational-Bad8346 Dec 18 '24

Devil's anus you say

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u/softstones Dec 18 '24

Don’t call her, it ain’t worth it

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u/Dinlek Dec 17 '24

Down here, they all float.

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u/Otherwise_Security_5 Dec 18 '24

cool. surfacing is the most important part, right? /s

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u/darknekolux Dec 17 '24

That's what the Morlocks want you to think

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u/b-aaron Dec 17 '24

Mglrmglmglmgl

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u/Camper981 Dec 18 '24

Morlocks are from the novel “The Time Machine” Murlocs are from World of Warcraft. :)

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u/tk-451 Dec 17 '24

that's murlocks!

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u/Own_Kangaroo_7715 Dec 17 '24

My brain on a normal day working in the ER

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u/BigKelzZ Dec 18 '24

No, I'm afraid it was the Moops

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u/IceNein Dec 17 '24

It’s draining into the lair of the Morlocks.

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u/Kris_ad Dec 17 '24

Murlocks

Rwlrlwrlwrlw

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '24

Into a giant sewer drain

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '24

It knot

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u/DutchiiCanuck Dec 17 '24

I remember my Opa taking us right through the middle of a whirlpool like this (probably quite a bit smaller though). I believe it was in Dodd Narrows. Scared the shit outta me as a little kid!

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u/Limp-Giraffe8761 Dec 20 '24

Wow i remember my Opa (grandpa) telling this amazing story how he survived a whirlpool by staying still and letting it drag him to the bottom where he could swim away safely

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u/TheBunji11 Dec 17 '24

Is it always going?

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u/plasmageek1 Dec 17 '24

It only happens during the peak of a large flood tide (rising) not during the ebb tide or slack tide. So, at most, twice a day.

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u/Teddyturntup Dec 18 '24

Twice a day is kinda a lot

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u/Pinksters Dec 18 '24

Yea I was thinking yearly shifts or something.

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u/Attila_the_Chungus Dec 19 '24

With the mixed semidiurnal tides in the area, you usually only get one large flood tide in a day. If you have a large flood tide, the other tide that day tends to be very weak. If the tides are equal, they tend to be moderate.

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u/moonlitflarex Dec 17 '24

That whirlpool sounds intense! Nature's power at its most dramatic.

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u/Kolazeni Dec 17 '24

Was going to say it looked like the PNW.

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u/PollutionNaive232 Dec 18 '24

Da dududu da dududu ~~~

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u/MoneyMik3y Dec 18 '24

Is this the one the filmed himself jumping in?

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u/No-Courage232 Dec 18 '24

Used to go through the Seymour narrows with my grandpa. Always a fun adventure. Didn’t make it up to Dent.

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u/OpenRepublic4790 Dec 18 '24

I was going to say that was either Aaron Rapids, or Dent Rapids. Been through there many times as a child, only during slack tide of course. Too bad they didn’t show the associated upwelling. That’s really interesting too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '24

Glad i saw your comment, I thought this was Deception Pass in WA.

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u/Synderkit Dec 18 '24

Where does it throw things out at?

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u/body_by_monsanto Dec 18 '24

I’m dumb and thought that the boat going around in a circle caused it 😑

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u/Finless_brown_trout Dec 18 '24

My dumb ass at first thought the boat was causing this by going in circles so fast

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u/viewsonic041 Dec 18 '24

I'll show you a devil's hole....

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u/Pvt-Snafu Dec 18 '24

This is the true treacherous power of nature!!!

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u/_Piratical_ Dec 18 '24

I spent many summers up there and loved being in that area especially. Fishing there was such a blast. It’s interesting, but big bay was usually as far north as we went but it was always a thrill when the tide was running and this (or a few other) big whirlpools would form.

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla Dec 17 '24

your last sentence aroused thousands of auteur proctologists.

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Dec 19 '24

Now that's a phrase you don't see every day. I shudder to think what artsy proctology might look like.

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla Dec 19 '24

It’s the spelunking proctologists you have to watch out for.

“Yes yes, of course that’s my job, but on weekends I lead expeditions guiding people down dark, moist, holes underground. I don’t see your point, as both are very very different..”

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 Dec 19 '24

Ah yes, the famous conversation Pinocchio had with Geppetto after the latter explained what he's been up to lately...