Maelstrom

[Duckman1616]

Good day to go swimming.

[Lonelybirdlax99]

i dont get it



[KeivanHH]

Dove l'avete girato??? Where did you take this video???

[SilviaBieber123]

@KeivanHH in Norvegia all'altezza tra le isole Loften (lo sto studiando in geografia e si verifica solo li :) )

[novzki]

how does it happen?

[koer56]

@novzki by 2 bodies of water hitting each other

[moondrop1881]

Calypso is angry!

[Pete1635]

That wasnt a maelstrom it was a series of eddies

[rocafella142]

@Pete1635 Yes it is

[HivanGrosny]

Wooo! The cameraman is Italian! ^^

[aytherix]

Hydro-electric turbines anyone? Thats a lot of tidal power to harness... and you know how everyone is crazy about "going green" lol.

[xzbyte2002]

@aytherix It's already been tried :) The current were of such imense powers that it started to tear the structure apart rather fast. New projects are currently tested.

[Iuwl]

lol the small boat disappeared

[wads40]

woo, look at the size of that thing!

[Andreazor]

Man I wanna live in one of those houses right there. Talk about awesome.

[clayguy33]

I love the word maelstrom. perhaps that is what I shall name my son.

[Andreazor]

@clayguy33

He'll hate you forever.

[HDuyNguyen]

Captain Nemo - Where art thou?

[yourtube1234567]

i love nature

[freeman801]

it wasnt a maelstrom... it was just reaction of waves hitting eache other and made a small whirlpool effect

[ozzi94]

@freeman801

ehh... thats exactly what an maelstrom is caused by...

[zherui]

@ozzi94 caused by chuck norris scuba diving?

[rocafella142]

@freeman801 That's what a maelstrom is genious. This is a video of the Saltstraumen it's the biggest maelstrom in the world. If you we're expecting a giant vacuum sucking down gallons of water per millisecond then you watch too much TV.

[ThereRLG2006]

@rocafella142 I like how you misspelled Genius. Just BRILLIANT!

[rocafella142]

@ThereRLG2006 so fucking what, who cares

[tiucciuido]

Italiano?

[POLARIS2014]

what exactly is a maelstrom :P?

[white95sl2]

To put it simply... a whirlpool.

[hagu44]

a much bigger than normal whirlpool

[mrgibblz]

its when the water hax its self dur lol

[dokaw]

Yeesh, the first half of this video sounded like sporadic machine gun fire from WWI >_>

[ascheepe]

Nice! I wouldn't go for a swim there ;)

[slayerfan202766]

lol francastillo, nice family guy reference

[DarkAndrew12345]

Someone should throw a paper cup, or something into the water. Thats a video i'd like to see

[dakotasapphire]

ommg i would love to go up close to something like that.

[PhatTrack]

A maelstrom is a clashing of tides which usually results in a whirlpool but not always

[pondypoo]

call me an idiot but i don't see anything, i was expecting like a large swirling body of water

[YTR0009]

yea, u might not see anything but, if u're there, u would be sucked into it

[francastillo86]

Damn nature, you're scary.

[WomansTart]

@francastillo86 ROFLMAO

[yetipoop]

@francastillo86

you*

[BigHornCanyon]

What happens when a wooden ship, of old, gets caught up in this phenomenon, or even a modern yacht?

[DieAndBehold]

It gets torn a sunder from the current and the water's pressure, or will get out if it uses enough speed.

[HimbeerSab]

read edgar allan poe and you will know

[otrebor16]

great short story

[sallyjedi]

is it from lofotens islands? (i d'like to see that in vacation!)

[NikoSlave]

iaaauauujaujaujauja

cuca

[crugad]

that is actually scary

[RedStore4]

Everyone thinks that this is the whirlpool that Edgar Allan Poe was talking about, except Norwegians and people who researched it. The real Maelstrom is what I was asking about: Moskstraumen and is west of this one by around 50 miles.

[tefocuchet]

I read about this in edgar allan poe´s novel. is it true it kills whales?

[s0erd]

Whales are mostly not stupid enough to go into one. Also maelströms happen too close to the coast for whales to enter it... dunno, maybe occasionally. I don´t really know but logically it would be weird :D

[ironwolg]

it could if a whale got in i suppose

[insanity108]

yes insane is the light way of putting it lol

[RedStore4]

Anyone have a video of Moskstraumen (off the coast of the Lofoten Islands)?

[Mr3lectric]

00:04 bottom right corner there is some kind of small boat? Are they insane?

[dahbombman]

@Mr3lectric No, this is Patrick.

[Andreazor]

@Mr3lectric

It's a small motorboat yes. It's on the fringes of the maelstrom and so light in the water that I don't think it's in that much danger if it stays away.

It might just be one of the natives, considering that there are actually houses next to this :P

[justgiver91]

@Mr3lectric yeah wtf?? probably some weird suicide cult

[Fabianationx123]

@Mr3lectric he is thrall

[Andresm092]

@Fabianationx123 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Standrew777]

@Mr3lectric strange how you cant see the small boat after the Whirlpool ends O_O

[snaps4108]

Hmm, wouldn't you just love to go swimming in that XD

[arstuf]

WAT HAPENS IF U GET SUCKED INTO THAT?

[gatapi]

you get sucked underwater and drown.

[arstuf]

OMG! AND I HATE BLCKHOLES!!

[gatapi]

...racist bastard...

[arstuf]

THE HOLE IN SPACE U R TARD!! lol.

[gatapi]

i am tard?

...

:D

[arstuf]

YES! EXACTLY....HEE HEE

[IIIIlllIIl]

you'll be lead into an underwater treasure route. LOL

[arstuf]

COOL WILL THEIR NE LOLLIES!!

[Espio360]

Right, diving equipment please. Lol.

[sesboon]

I live nearby there! ^^

[radonhus]

Miles Straume!

[sven647]

Cant top the one in pirates of the carribian

[indignorant]

Maybe not, but this one can... Do a search for "Oil Driller Breaches Salt Mine Under Louisana Lake"

[H057IL3]

Ho mai visto la formatzione d'un Maelstrom. Bello!

I never saw the formation of a Maelstrom. Cool.

Speaking of which, I have a band named Maelstrom.

[marshal1973]

Do they suck? J/K LOL

[antiisaacbarbie17]

Sooo....if you/I/whatever try to swim in it...you would most likely get sucked in because of how strong the waves are...I wonder if there can be a natural mini maestrom

[kdallons]

It's called a whirlpool...

[antiisaacbarbie17]

...Oh...riiiight xD wow....

[NextGenVideoTrailers]

Just get captain gibs from potc and get him to say Maelstrommmm

[BlueJuan85]

I believe some of those whirlpools can suck you in all the way to the bottom. This is my first time ever watching one other than movies.

[Ayenamae]

I don't get it, it's water moving along. And there's an island and a house. Where is it anyway?

[666BlackCore666]

can i swim in it ??

[Ayenamae]

I don't think so. It might suck you in or something.

[Phoenex360]

Way to state the obvious.....

[joshaz441]

hahahahahahaha

[unclealister]

Brilliant video of a great natural phenomenon. Thanks for sharing. Would love to see more of this - and the other one mentioned as described so vividly by E.A.Poe.

[hina3792]

that's soooo scary watching the damn thing on camera ,, i wonder how the people felt recording this.

[benshiza]

Yeah, cheers for that! Not quite what Edgar Allan Poe described but I wouldn't like to be strapped to a dinghy in the midst of it.  I observed a similar effect in Japan's Inner Sea - lots of tiny islands, or disrupting the ebb and flow and frequently resulting in channels running counter to each other, creating lots of whirlpools.

[slowmovement]

Do you mean the Naruto Strait? You've been there? Lucky guy! - I'm not quite sure, but this viedo seems to be from the Saltstraumen in Norway. The Moskstraumen Poe refers to is the other one of the two Norwegian tidal whirlpools.

[rufusminnie]

Coincidentally enough, just finished reading the Poe story (Descent into the Maelstrom) which was pretty tense; even though the writing style is kind of old-fashioned, it still packed a wallop.

[cha5]

The Poe story is one of my favorites,

I have read that the real Maelstrom or Moskenstraumen isn't quite as immense as the gigantic whirlpool Poe and Jules Verne describe which in their stories is powerful enough to even catch and destroy ships and even whales.

[fuckyalife]

i went canoeing down the river and in the rapid part of it i swear on my life there was a little whirlpool and we were just feet from being sucked in

[faouar]

unique pictures, thank you ofr uploading

[fuckyalife]

theres whirlpools in connecticut too

[azucarmoreno]

And Scotland