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
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This reminds me of when I was a kid and I would put water in a blender and it would make a little whirlpool in the middle. It was oddly entertaining for how simple it was.
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