The world's most powerful tidal current 

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Tom Scott Amazing Places: The Maginot Line.

The best four words anyone could ever say!

Romanski God dunnit

Checkmate, atheists.

Romanski Yeah but when Toast goes in, some guy named Chris and a lot of denial come out.

Food goes in poop comes out, you can't explain that!

Chickens go in, pies come out.

He should've done a live "stream" there.

I don't understand. Water you two talking about?

I sea you're up to no good again.

I'm gonna turn your tide.

Also, this seems a bit "fish"-y.

Currently living this reality

It's just what happened to me today. Are you an oracle? How come you know it?😧

@@Kenan-Z i am inside your CPU

Me as well!!!!!!! Are we trapped?

I knew there'd be another coaster in here.

It would be interesting to know what the maximum flows actually are. The Wikipedia entry for Saltstraumen Maelstrom says the official numbers, from the Norwegian Pilot, are less than 10 kts, which is a lot less than Skookumchuck and other places on the BC coast where currents often run into the teens.

Wisdom, perhaps?

its the effect of premature balding when it starts in your 20s. You can end up with a baby face alongside the hairline of a 40-50 year old, creating a maelstorm of mismatched old/young features.

Alcohol abuse

@NESHMETAL r/13or30

Very steve martin

is it possible to swim against the current...? or just swim towards the shore when you are flung hundreds of meters since its weaker there?

Or Shark

chickentandoori87 - what about sharks that get caught in the current and then get tossed straight at you???

Fun fact: no one enters this part of the fjord, its restricted.

Sounds fun

i know this isnt at all what you meant, but the idea that tom personally creates everything he shows us and is a god funny

If you weren’t aware. Tom is just a spokesperson.(he is very intelligent) But he’s just invited to these phenomena to present it to his audience.

stop

They do that twice a day. Your point?

HOW QUICKLY THE TIDE TURNS

sounds epic right

Well well well How the turn tides

Good luck

dont

Do it

yes do it

Dew it Anakin. Mwehehe.

Yep, doesn't seem to compare with Horizontal Falls in Western Australia

Pun intended

If you like this guy you will probably like veritasium as well

@@codyfisher9972Goated creators. Mark Rober is awesome too, different stuff though

How to prove tides are an illusion Scientists incorrectly believe that tides are caused by the moon's gravitational pull on seawater, causing it to bulge and move around the Earth. The truth is that tides are an illusion of shorelines moving through the ocean, caused by periodic solar orbiting rays that cause thermal expansion of the Earth's crust. To prove that tides are an illusion, a laser beam was set up on a pier at the eastern end of the Bay of Fundy, parallel to sea level and pointing westward to a fixed land mark away from the shore. This target was observed at high and low tide. If the tide is a change in sea level, then the target matches. Otherwise, the tide is an illusion of the coastal seabed moving across the flat ocean due to periodic thermal expansion of the earth's crust.

Pun intended?

He needs to get a girlfriend before the stress turns him into Steve Carell or worse, or maybe Herbert Hoover if he has an anonymous LiveLeak account.

He might do already, he doesn't like to talk too much about his personal life. I'd consider it but I'm a lesbian so...

LeahAmelia1 whoa

Just let him be. Leave Tom alone! 😂

This didn't age well.

and the lovely crinkly edges :)

I just realised that Tom may have based his whole youtube persona on the Book.

@@ThreadBomb Nah, I think that's just every Brit

No, "Salt-" comes from Norse "salpt" meaning current.

Arathos no it really means «the salt current»

@@CobraTeamGuys Can you back that claim up?

I sense some salt in this comment thread....

@@gnuling296 Nobody knows for sure since the name is so old but salt does mean current in old Norse and it's a part of the name of several other Norwegian tidal currents too, such as as the twin Nordsalten (North current) and Sørsalten (South current)

The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia also experiences super high tides. In fact, people surf the tidal wave with the incoming tides cause it does come in that fast.

And another: Deception Pass, Whidby Island, Washington State.

Skookumchuck narrows near Egmont BC Canada draws river kayakers to shoot it's rapids during peak tide season.

@@Saugaverse if you surf the the horizontal falls in the Kimberley in Australia and you fell off you get eaten bye sharks and crocs

Talbot bay WA.10m tides passing through a 20m wide gap then through a 10m wide gap further in, creating a horizontal water fall that is spectacular. Tom,you ain't seen nothing till you've seen that,makes that maelstrom look like a trickle.

Would be pretty ok, but there are a lot of rivers where the amount of water is way higher. And you would also have to deal with the tide switching directions every 6 hours

No, just use waterfalls instead with high fall distances, there are plenty of those in norway anyways

As Jonathanje said, it would be ok but I'd like to add that the mealstrom also creates very turbulent water that could rip it apart if it's not built sturdy enough.

+CrazyGaming You can do it, there's a experimental power plant in New York producing power from the stream of the river there with underwater turbines, nothing stopping us from doing the same here. The issue is just that that there's a *lot* of wear and tear on something like that...

+slawterer And then all the blended fish matter (which mostly consists of ground up bones and meat) would clog up the generator, requiring it to be taken offline and cleaned, and you’d be hard pressed to find someone willing to clean up that bloody mess.

Yes but the scale and speed is tiny compared to this although you get the wawe up river and here we dont.

You can't explain that.

Never a miscommunication.

All hail Harry Potter, the holy deity of all that is true. If it weren't for his wizardly spells of water movement, there would be no tide.

What?

Sidney W, some years ago on the O'Reilley Factor, an atheist was interviewed by O'Reilley, who gave the stunning argument for a (/his) gods' existence: The tides. Himself unaware of why the tides "never miscommunicat[ed]", he claimed that "you [atheists] can't explain that" *. Of course, that's pure bollocks, as we can explain it and have been able to for centuries, but O'Reilley seeing it was the perfect argument for his god of a gap, seized upon it. Naturally it became a meme within a few days, and has since survived for when we already know all necessary information to explain a phenomenon, yet uneducated fraudsters still try to claim we know nothing so as to make room for their god. *IIRC, the atheist was so dumbstruck that he couldn't answer straight away, which made O'Reilley repeat the claim several times. It was good fun; look it up.

Thanks Donald

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I think it was "a glass of water".

I'll never be cruel to a gin & tonic again...

This must be Thursday. I never could quite get the hang of Thursdays.

I was thinking of the whirlpool in Saint John watching this, even has the bridge above it.

That phrase is in the book too

Catpirate what

Wyatt Fenlason It's true

The fourth longest water tunnel are in Skåne, Sweden. Give fresh water to Malmö region.

He's right. It is true. I'm not far from there at all. Maybe 2 hours

Is anyone liable to travel through the tunnel?

Yes and no. I live in the area, and have heard a million stories about people falling into the sea and disappearing, never to be found again. Believe it or not though, it's an extremely popular diving spot, where divers can go down underwater at the weakest point of the day. These divers sometimes find rests of bodies at the sea bottom (but they're mostly from suicides, as the huge-ass Saltstraumen bridge above Tom in the video is a 'popular' suicide spot as well).

Steve Trump [VR] this fjord is restricted from all divers so no, bodies don’t get found

@@Alucard-gt1zf completely wrong. I literally work at the local campsite, which works together with the diving center "Saltstraumen Dykkecamp". Search it up if you don't believe me. It's a thing, it's legal, and it happens.

Or "Saltstraumen Diving Camp", I guess in English.

If you're looking to dump a body, the best place to do so is out in the Everglades in any remote gator infested mud hole that has a depth of more than twenty feet. But you will need a trusted friend with a helicopter, because you have to drop the body with some velocity for it to punch through the mud and get sucked to the bottom. It's gotta be that deep black mud too, and without deep standing water on top. Gots to have that quick sand surface layer otherwise standing water could prevent proper submersion and give ya a floater. Or so I was told by a friend, who I had asked for a friend of a friend.

Get back to making poops

Gah

Come on, or else JoeySnowey will beat you again.

What about our year?!

Yep. 5m tide through a 12m inlet.

@@mabamabam How about the bay of Fundy in Canada, it has a nearly 20 meter tidal difference, and there's actually a place where the water rushes past an island in the middle of the inlet with such ferocity that it makes the entire island vibrate. Even without that island it already has the biggest tidal difference in the world, but that island increases it even more and so drastically that the water level drops up to 2 meter in height difference in less than a few dozen meters of distance.

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Mad Cap'n Tom for Prime Minister!

@@tardigrade9493 rip

Saltstraumen is the name of the locality and so the Saltstraumen Maelstrom is the correct name for the tidal current. It is, after all, the 'maelstrom at Saltstraumen'.

And what is "Maelstorm"?

this is actually quite slow for Saltstraumen, at top speed it might be faster than skookum chuck

Right. BC has several that exceed this in speed of current and volume of water. Nakwakto Rapids, Skookumchuck, and Seymour Narrows, which has the greatest volume of water flow on the planet (and 16 knot current). Excellent videos of all these and more on youtube.

Saltstraumen is the world's most powerful maelstrom though.

I immediately thought of Horizontal Falls after watching this vid. From memory the drop in water from the tidal flow can be up to two meters.

That depends. If you welcome death, then no, it's not weird at all.

You would join a long list of people who have met cold, wet, swift deaths in the same spot. The water will be so cold that it'll send your muscles and respiratory system into shock, making it exceptionally hard to swim or even just tread water, but on top of that it's extremely turbulent... you'd be dragged under within seconds, and not even have the strength to try and claw your way back to the surface, assuming you could still tell which way was up. So, yeah... it's maybe not weird, but it is extremely ill-advised.

Call of the void

I think faster as well, plus the drop in water levels either side

The Turnagain Arm portion of Cook Inlet in Alaska has bore tides due to the rapid influx of water on the incoming tide. If I'm not mistaken, the tide height difference (between high and low tide) there is second only to the tides at the Bay of Fundy.