Yo, aussies! Who didn't put the drain plug back?

[Kaa]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21376947-5006009,00.html


"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."

Kaa

[Wild Dingo]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21376947-5006009,00.html


"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."

Kaa



Its all good ;) Its only Sydney the butthole of Aussie :D :D Just natures way of flushin :p

[Wild Dingo]

Larry thanks for askin but Im fine... bloody fanfriggintastic in fact :cool:

Well all but finding out today that I will need a total knee rebuild sooner than they thought :( and that me digit isnt mending as fast as they expected :o

Otherwise Im so flamin good Id pit meself against 10 gigolos an a nymphomaniac any time ;)

[rbgarr]

Nemo!!!!!!

[Craic]

Increased surface salinity from strong evaporation on the surface may have been the initial cause or impulse, as the higher salinity water -though warmer at first- is heavier and starts to sink, with the Coriolis force kicking in and turning that vertical movement into a whirl and 'whirlpool'. The lower sealevel at the center of the whirlpool would be due to the centrifugal forces of the spinning column of seawater. The cooler surface water surrounding would be the cold water from the deep pushed up by the downfalling salt-richer warmer surface water. A 'downward hurricane' in the water could be a good analogy.

I would suspect a good amount of rain should stop it as it would reduce the surface water salinity. So maybe the currently reported lack of rain over Australia adds to the situation.
C.

[The Bigfella]

I haven't noticed any lowering of the water upstream in the Hawkesbury - at a guess, I'd be 20 - 23 nm upstream though.

Its probably the sharks circling the bodies that the crims dump out there. There's been a few taken fishing out there only to discover that they were the bait - and IIRC it was rumoured that the guys who built my boat back in 1937 were involved in the "arm in the shark" case - someone caught a big White Pointer out there, cut it open and found an arm.....

There's supposed to be a bikie war going on here at the moment.

Ian

[Wild Dingo]

I haven't noticed any lowering of the water upstream in the Hawkesbury - at a guess, I'd be 20 - 23 nm upstream though.

Its probably the sharks circling the bodies that the crims dump out there. There's been a few taken fishing out there only to discover that they were the bait - and IIRC it was rumoured that the guys who built my boat back in 1937 were involved in the "arm in the shark" case - someone caught a big White Pointer out there, cut it open and found an arm.....

There's supposed to be a bikie war going on here at the moment.

Ian

That was an interestin unsolved case wasnt it Ian... not sure if the worked out who it belonged to if memory sers it had a tat of two boxers facing up in the old marqis style?

And your boat was "involved"? :eek: mmmm yer a worry mate ;)

Bikiess goin at each other again? mmm give em a month or so and my guess is there will be another cross the nallubour run with the usual waste of tax payers money cop escort :rolleyes:

[The Bigfella]

No Shane, not my boat - it was in 1935 - two years before my boat was built. My memory wasn't quite right with the shark bit.

The shark was a 3.5metre Tiger and was caught off Coogee and put into an aquarium, where it disgorged the arm. You are right about the tattoo - and it led to it being identified as having come from Jim Smith - and employee of Reginald Holmes - boatbuilder, cocaine etc smuggler. How or if this Holmes was related to the Holmes Bros who built my boat, I am not sure.

Full Shark Arm story. Wikipedia also mentions that it was the basis for a 2003 CSI Miami episode

http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s546563.htm

Strewth - how's that for a bit of thread drift

[ahp]

Shane, if you get a good bone mechanic the new knee will do just great. I play tennis against guys that have knee replacements, sometimes two, and sometimes they win!