The mysterious double whirlpool mystery sucks sea creatures on the ocean

Researchers still do not understand the cause and mechanism of forming whirlpools that attract marine life hundreds of kilometers in diameter in the ocean.

Double whirlpools attract marine life and sweep them away.(Artwork: Wordpress.)

The hundreds of kilometers between the ocean called the vortex flow are very common, but for the first time scientists observe the whirlpools that combine into twirling pairs in opposite directions. Previously, this difficult explanation phenomenon was only mentioned in the hypothesis and never appeared in nature, according to the International Business Times.

Large pairs of whirlpools called modons are recorded by satellites. Researchers believe that they rotate ten times faster than single whirlpools and can attract marine life, rolling through large distances. Satellite images reveal modon images moving across the Tasman Sea, off south-west Australia, south Atlantic Ocean and western South Africa.

After observing the phenomenon, scientists try to discover the cause of ocean whirlpools and why their activity is so strange. The results are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on December 28.

" The single oceanic whirlpool is almost always towards the west, but when paired, they can move to the east at a rate 10 times faster than regular whirlpools, so they push water in the directions. unusual across the ocean, " said Chris Hughes, an oceanographer at the University of Liverpool, England, a member of the research team. 'We found a pair of whirlpools rotating in opposite directions and interrelated, so that they traveled along the Tasman Sea for 6 months'.

A deeper analysis revealed actual modems that are not as rare as previously speculated. Scientists scanned satellite data since 1993 and found evidence of nine different modules. While 8 modons are located around Australia, a modon formed in southwestern South Africa, in the Atlantic Ocean.

"I happened to notice a Tasmanian sea feature between Australia and New Zealand that worked quite strangely compared to everywhere else. Most single whirlpools drifted slowly westward, but this trait moved. very quickly to the east. It turned out to be double whirlpools , "Hughes said.

The team is unaware of the causes of double whirlpool phenomenon, they speculate that individual whirlpools can form pairs when they collide on the ocean or rush to the coast. The scientists observed when the whirling whirlpools merged, a U-shaped vortex formed under water, connecting two single whirlpools and keeping them moving together for up to 6 months.

According to Hughes, dual whirlpools can transport organism over large distances."I consider other oceanic regions but only detect double whirlpools in the waters around Australia and a couple in the south Atlantic. I think these fast moving whirlpools can attract small marine creatures, Roll them away at high speeds and over large distances in the ocean, " Hughes said.