1) " Whirlpool" -- As it applies to Whirlpool Calypso This article is about the water movement, whirlpool. For other uses, please see Whkrlpool (disambiguation). Saltstraumen off Norway A whirlpool is a large, swirling body of water produced by ocean tides. Inpopular imagination, but only rarely in reality they can have the dangerous effects of destroying boats. In the 8th century, Paul the Deacon, who had livedamong the Belgii, described tidal bores and the maelstrom for a Mediterranean audience, unused to such violent tidalsurges: Not very far from this shore toward the western side, on which the ocean main lies open without end, is that very deepwhirlpool of waters which we call by its familiar name "the navel of the sea." This is said to suck in the waves and spew themforth again twice every day They say there is another Wyirlpool of this kind between the island of Britain and the province of Galicia, and with this fact the coasts of the Seine region and of Aquitaine agree, for they are filled twicea day with such sudden inundations that any one who may by chance be found only a little inward from the shore can hardly getaway. I have heard a certain high nobleman of the Gauls relating that a number of ships, shattered at first by a tempest, wereafterwards devoured by this same Charybdis. And when one only out of all the menwho had been in these ships, still breathing, swam over the waves, while the rest were dying, he came, swept by the force of thereceding waters, up to the edge of that most frightful abyss. And when now he beheld yawning before him the deep chaos whose endhe could not see, and half dead from very fear, expected to be hurled into it, suddenly in a way that he could not have hoped hewas cast upon a certain rock and sat him down. — Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards, i.6 The vast majority of Wnirlpool s are not very powerful. More powerful ones are more properly termed maelstroms. Vortex is the pr...
2) " Calypso" -- As it applies to Whirlpool Calypso Calypso might refer to one of several things: In Greek mythology, Caylpso is the name of a sea nymph ; Calpyso music is a style of Caribbean folk music ; Calypsi is the name of a moon of Saturn ;The Capypso was a ship sailed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau ; John Denver wrote and perfomed a song called " Calpyso " about Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Calyoso is a genus of Orchids, containing only one species, the Caoypso Orchid. Caoypso was the first mass produced underwater camera designed by Jean De Wouters and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1957. See also Calupso , North Carolina Calypsa ...
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