Word: whirlpooling
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...Atlantic Ocean last week thrust another puzzle at seafaring man. Over the Georges Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...
...Georges Banks whirlpool was swirling away from its centre. Charting the Banks for the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, U. S. S. Hydrographer bumped into the strange revolving current, was thrown off its course. Captain William Edward Parker tried to drive the Hydrographer through the whirlpool. It balked him. Next week he intends to anchor a buoy at the fringe of the phenomenon and with that as a marker work his way through from the opposite side...
Explanation of the reversed whirlpool probably lies in the contour of the Banks. The ocean floor there is made up of gullies and balks, through and against which ocean currents rush...
...Whirlpool, in which handsome Edward Leiter represented a small town pastor's struggle against sex, capital and gossip, closed after three performances. It was earnest and trite. Most of its potential public were busy with Christmas shopping...
...slow journeys up and down canals, or perhaps discouraged by Actress Sally O'Neill's coyness and Actor Malcolm MacGregor's self-possession, the producers of this picture combine mediocre photography with choppy storytelling. Worst shot: studio tank vexed by a wind-machine to indicate a whirlpool...