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Default Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown?

M. Stradbury wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:51:29 -0700, Tony Hwang wrote:

Like toilet bowl water swirls.


A toilet bowl is too small to show the Coriolis effect, but a pool
isn't according to Sandlin and Muller.

http://mashable.com/2015/06/04/water.../#vRjaqfm0bSqs
"Derek Muller and Destin Sandlin, the minds behind the Veritasium and
Smarter Every Day YouTube channels, respectively, do show that water
(and even hurricanes or cycloness) preferentially spins
counter-clockwise in the north and clockwise in the south, you just
might not be able to see it with your toilet water."


I just flushed both my toilets. One went clockwise. The other went
counterclockwise. QED.