Hayle Harbour, United Kingdom, 2013
The Whirlpool
"The whirlpool in Hayle Harbour only appears a few times a year. It was a quirk of Victorian engineering devised to stop the harbour silting up. Water would be stored in a pool at high tide and, once the tide had retreated, released back into the harbour to wash away the sand. The water would get into the pool through a tunnel beneath a quay. But sometimes the tide would come back in faster than the water could pass through the tunnel."
This would create the whirlpool.
Jacob Cockle
Jacob's last moments
Slavshit
Sandshit
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I read an interesting breakdown on this one a while back. The wet suit was keeping him buoyant enough to play around at the top. But once he went down too deep, the pressure reduced the buoyancy of the wet suit to where he wasn't able to overcome the pull downward.
At least that's what someone who seemed to know their stuff said, and it makes sense.
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still scary
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Thats just a long ass way of saying. 'His suit was floaty but it wasnt floaty enough to combat the sinky of the whirlpool'
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I like the way you put that. Very concise and in words I can understand.
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I have kids, it's my job _sings Daddy cool_
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Ya didn't he used to do this a lot of something?
Also don't wetsuits keep a layer of water in between the fabrics to help keep divers warm. That doesn't sound very buoyant. But I don't know shit. I'm too claustrophobic to even wear one.
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They insulate via air bubbles in the fabric.
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I think that's a drysuit. A wetsuit uses water
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There's still an insulating layer. The water against your body may be warm, but it needs to be insulated from the rest of the water around you or it wouldn't work.
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Yeah exactly. A wetsuit lets a small layer of water warm up around you. A dry suit is doesn't let any water in at all
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🤓 acktually….
" Wetsuits are made of a kind of rubber called neoprene. The suit traps a thin layer of water between the neoprene and the wearer's skin. So, the wearer is always wet—that's why it's called a wetsuit. Body heat warms the layer of trapped water and helps keep the wearer warm."
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"Neoprene gets its properties from a process in which nitrogen gas is baked into it, forming tiny air bubbles within the rubber that gives neoprene its insulating properties. This is the main reason why scuba diving wetsuits are made from neoprene. The air bubbles in neoprene also make them slightly buoyant; a great property to have when you are scuba diving."
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https://adrenalindive.com.au/wetsuits-explained/#:~:text=Neoprene%20gets%20its%20properties%20from,wetsuits%20are%20made%20from%20neoprene.
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It seems like we are at a draw….
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Lemme hop in and make it a Mexican standoff
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