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Whirlpools COURTESY OF TOKUSHIMA PREFECTURAL GOV'T

Thursday 02nd July, 05:00 AM JST

A sightseeing boat approaches a whirlpool in the Seto Inland Sea in Tokushima Prefecture. The whirlpool is one of many created by the ebb and flow of currents in Naruto Strait and vortexes can reach up to 20 meters in diameter, swirling at a velocity of 20 kilometers per hour.

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  • dishdash at 01:17 PM JST - 2nd July

    F-R-E-A-K-Y

  • sn00z3 at 01:30 PM JST - 2nd July

    Damnit! Somebody pulled the plug of the Seto Inland Sea!

    lols

    Looks like a washing machine to me. ^_^

  • pawatan at 02:38 PM JST - 2nd July

    It's a lovely sight, but I'm going to be a bit of a contrarian here and say it's not all that good of a photo. Sorry. I've seen much better photos of these whirlpools around the web.

  • nandakandamanda at 04:42 PM JST - 2nd July

    Pawatan: "... I'm going to be a bit of a contrarian here and say it's not all that good of a photo..."

    Agreed. You need to lean out a bit further to get some topside angle on it.

  • jhk at 05:56 PM JST - 2nd July

    I'm going to be more contrarian and say that this looks like what will happen to all Western economies, mostly due to the income gap problem we have.

  • gogogo at 07:53 PM JST - 2nd July

    What is an ebb?

  • goodDonkey at 08:04 PM JST - 2nd July

    gogogo said:

    What is an ebb?

    He was that farmhand on Green Acres.

  • goodDonkey at 08:05 PM JST - 2nd July

    Ebb is the opposite of when the tide comes in. Ebb is when the tide goes out. When the water recedes.

  • rogerbentham at 09:40 PM JST - 2nd July

    don't want to be in the water!!!

  • cuddles2009 at 09:42 PM JST - 2nd July

    Now that reminds me I used to Ebb.............hehehehe

  • Fadamor at 10:38 PM JST - 2nd July

    "Ebb and Flood": the two directions a tide moves (out and in, respectively).

  • BTADT at 11:32 PM JST - 2nd July

    We shredded it back in the late 80's man.

  • Wayne_san at 12:24 AM JST - 3rd July

    very cool ...

  • BurakuminDes at 12:37 AM JST - 3rd July

    Awesome photo. My dream is to go swimming into the whirlpool. Unheard of for Japanese, but an Aussie could handle it with ease!

  • OhioDonna at 04:03 AM JST - 3rd July

    Amazing photo!

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