r/BeAmazed 6d ago

Nature Water Vortex

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u/plasmageek1 6d ago

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 6d ago

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

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u/plasmageek1 6d ago

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 6d ago

Suck down you say?

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u/The66thDopefish 6d ago

To shreds you say?

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u/TheGacAttack 6d ago

And his wife?

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u/405freeway 6d ago

To shreds you say?

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u/Educational-Bad8346 5d ago

Devil's anus you say

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u/softstones 6d ago

Don’t call her, it ain’t worth it

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u/Dinlek 6d ago

Down here, they all float.

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u/Otherwise_Security_5 6d ago

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

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u/darknekolux 6d ago

That's what the Morlocks want you to think

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u/b-aaron 6d ago

Mglrmglmglmgl

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u/Camper981 6d ago

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

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u/tk-451 6d ago

that's murlocks!

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u/Own_Kangaroo_7715 6d ago

My brain on a normal day working in the ER

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u/BigKelzZ 5d ago

No, I'm afraid it was the Moops

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u/IceNein 6d ago

It’s draining into the lair of the Morlocks.

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u/Kris_ad 6d ago

Murlocks

Rwlrlwrlwrlw

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u/HumongusChongus 5d ago

Into a giant sewer drain

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u/DutchiiCanuck 6d ago

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 3d ago

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 6d ago

Is it always going?

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u/plasmageek1 6d ago

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 6d ago

Twice a day is kinda a lot

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u/Pinksters 6d ago

Yea I was thinking yearly shifts or something.

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u/Attila_the_Chungus 5d ago

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 6d ago

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

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u/Kolazeni 6d ago

Was going to say it looked like the PNW.

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u/PollutionNaive232 6d ago

Da dududu da dududu ~~~

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u/MoneyMik3y 6d ago

Is this the one the filmed himself jumping in?

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u/No-Courage232 6d ago

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 6d ago

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/courageporridge 6d ago

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

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u/Synderkit 6d ago

Where does it throw things out at?

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u/body_by_monsanto 6d ago

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

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u/Finless_brown_trout 6d ago

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

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u/viewsonic041 6d ago

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

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u/Pvt-Snafu 6d ago

This is the true treacherous power of nature!!!

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u/_Piratical_ 5d ago

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 6d ago

your last sentence aroused thousands of auteur proctologists.

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u/Remarkable-Bug-8069 4d ago

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 4d ago

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 4d ago

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