Timeline for Can a human survive in Saltstraumen or other whirlpool?
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| May 10, 2018 at 1:23 | comment | added | Don Branson | A myth? That does it. I'm no longer using Poe as a historical reference. | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 14:31 | comment | added | Escoce | The question asks about the average person, not the skilled Rapids swimmer. | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 12:43 | history | edited | Michael Borgwardt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2016 at 9:14 | comment | added | Mazura | @blahdiblah - "...with evidence of being dragged along the bottom for a great distance." | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 1:18 | comment | added | RomaH | Here is one of my favourite podcasts that touches briefly on humans swimming in maelstroms or whirlpools, but is more about vessels. However, the physics don't really change. skeptoid.com/episodes/4382 | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 23:03 | comment | added | blahdiblah | The maelstrom Wikipedia article mentions a whirlpool capable of sucking a mannequin wearing a life-jacket to a depth of 262 meters. Scary. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 20:53 | comment | added | gerrit | Consider your second point; strong experienced swimmers can also drown in rip tides and currents. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 19:49 | comment | added | Escoce | Bullet point number 3 ignores density of objects caught in eddies. An object that is slightly less dense than water that gets caught in an eddy will be pulled to the center and pulled down under water. An object very less dense will get pulled to the center and stuck on top. And object denser than the water will get tossed out of the eddy, but will sink. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 16:57 | history | answered | Michael Borgwardt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |