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| Down Under |
| Who Pulled the Drain Plug Off the Australian Coast? |
| 2007-03-14 |
| Halliburton must be re-charging the earthquake generator. A MASSIVE, mysterious whirlpool of cold water has developed off the coast of Sydney, forcing the sea surface to fall almost 1m and ocean currents to change course. Dubbed a sea "monster" by CSIRO oceanographers, the huge body of water stretches almost 200km across and plunges 1000m towards the ocean floor. Its centre sits just 100km off the coast of Sydney and could stay there for months. Scientists are baffled by the powerful cold-water eddy, which is invisible to the human eye but can be tracked through satellite images. At its centre the sea level has dropped by 70cm, while the water 400m below the surface is 6C colder than normal at that depth. The East Australian Current has been forced to divert around the eddy, which takes one week to do a full rotation in a clockwise direction. A second eddy of similar proportions is sitting further out from the coast. The cooler water can bring down the temperature at Sydney's beaches by several degrees. Dr Griffin said it contributed to the surprisingly cool sea temperatures – down to a numbing 14C – swimmers felt at their favourite spots this summer. But fish and other marine life felt the changes most, he said. Some would be attracted to the cooler water and others would shy away. Unlike the stupid marine life that lives around re-gassification plants and nuclear power plant cooling outlets. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #10 If the water is dropping into a hole in Australia, somewhere else on the planet, there is one freaking large geyser of water. Anything on Google Maps yet??. |
| Posted by: Delphi2005 2007-03-14 21:57 |
| #9 Global Warming? Ha, I wish. Cthulhu has woken up! He's taking a drink before coming to the surface. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2007-03-14 20:35 |
| #8 JM: My reading of var Aussie meda reports > the locals have known of this phenomenon for decades or generations. This must be why the |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-03-14 20:34 |
| #7 My reading of var Aussie meda reports > the locals have known of this phenomenon for decades or generations.Here on Guam Tornadoes, Waterspouts, and even occasional Snow Flurries/Balls occur, and have been occurring since the first HISTORY OF GUAM textbook came out in the late 1950's. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-03-14 20:28 |
| #6 This is obviously just another artifact of global warming. Shame on Bush! |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-03-14 20:27 |
| #5 Obviously it's an antediluvian opening to the lost inner world of Pellucidar! E.R. Burroughs was right all along! HEY! If he was right about that, then maybe he was right about Mars to! Dejah Thoris, here I come! |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-03-14 18:45 |
| #4 Remember the article about that hole in the floor of the Atlantic? Now we know where it connects... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-03-14 18:03 |
| #3 Scientists weren't lying. Not just toilets swirl in the opposite direction down under. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-03-14 14:10 |
| #2 I blame Bush! |
| Posted by: Chiper Threreger8956 2007-03-14 11:11 |
| #1 It was the Tasmanians what did it, I tells ya. They're devils, those Tasmanians! |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-03-14 10:47 |