The ocean is gone! The rarest phenomenon - Hurricane Irma drained the coast of the Bahamas. Hurricane Irma "took the ocean with it" from the beach of the Bahamas (photo, video) The ocean went 300 meters
After tropical hurricane Irma moved towards Florida, on the islands in the Atlantic Ocean, water left the beaches. People photographed this unusual natural phenomenon and filmed it on video. Many panicked, but meteorologists said that this is normal and explained how it works.
Saturday 9 September at in social networks there were strange photographs and even videos taken in the Bahamas. This archipelago is located north of Cuba and southeast of Florida, not far from where the eye of Hurricane Irma passes.
The photo shows that the waters of the Atlantic Ocean have gone far from the coast - so much so that the water is not visible at all. This is similar to what the coast looks like before a tsunami - but no earthquake has been reported in the area. Vacationers were puzzled and frightened.
“I can't believe it. This is Long Island, Bahamas, and there is simply no water!!! As far as the eye can see."
“My family in the Bahamas says Irma sucked up all the water. There is literally no water. The beach and the ocean are gone."
In the comments under his tweets, many write "Madness!", "WTF" and advise to run to some high place.
“When the water leaves like this, it could mean a tsunami is coming. Tell your people to CLIMB THE HIGH RIGHT NOW. away from coastline. Warn the others."
Photos from the same coast were published by other users.
"The sea is dry."
Meteorologist Angela Fritz explained to The Washington Post the nature of this phenomenon.
In the center of a hurricane, where there is an area of extremely low pressure, water is pulled upward. Low pressure works like a pump: it sucks in air, and when it drops hard enough, it can even change the shape of the ocean surface. The hurricane takes water to the center, and it leaves the periphery.
The next day, eyewitnesses report, the water returned to the beaches of the Bahamas. It is possible to compare how the seashore looked from the same point on September 9 and September 10.
Published on 11.09.17 10:06The unusual phenomenon excited the users of the social network.
The recording shows how far the waters of the Atlantic Ocean have gone far from the coast. Netizens said that what they saw was more reminiscent of the coast before the tsunami, but there was no such warning from the rescue services. idhumkz reported.
“I can’t believe it. This is Longsh Island, the Bahamas, and there is simply no water !!! As far as the eye can see,” wrote the author of the video.
"It looks like a tsunami…", "It's just crazy!", "When the water leaves like this, it can mean that a tsunami is coming. Tell your people to CLIMB THE HIGH RIGHT NOW. Away from the coastline. Warn the rest," they comment video frame users.
Meteorologist Angela Fritz told The Washington Post about what happened on the coast.
"In the center of a hurricane, where there is an area of extremely low pressure, water is pulled upwards. Low pressure works like a pump: it sucks air in, and when it falls hard enough, it can even change the shape of the ocean surface. A hurricane takes water to the center, and from the periphery it gone," the expert said.
According to eyewitnesses, the next day the water really returned to the beaches of the Bahamas, which is clearly visible in the photo.
Last week, Hurricane Irma shocked the world, destroying several island countries in the Caribbean, writes Bored Panda.
Now the storm has reached the United States and the Bahamas, where a rare and terrible phenomenon is observed that may be a harbinger of even more terrible disasters.
Tropical hurricanes have already left over 2.6 million homes without power, but now the direction of the wind has changed. The winds blow towards the center of the storm, causing the water in the ocean to move away from the coast. Not only does this look strange, but it could mean disastrous consequences when the water returns with renewed vigor.
Hurricane Irma reached Florida and the Bahamas, where a rare phenomenon is observed.
Ocean currents are pulled inward by tropical winds, and the beaches "dry up".
On Long Island, Bahamas, the water has receded below the horizon.
The hurricane's low pressure acts as a "suction mechanism," according to meteorologists.
Two Florida marine life have recently experienced the environmental impact of Irma.
Locals found two manatees stranded due to outflow of water. They managed to drag the animals to the ocean, which receded by as much as 100 meters.
One Bahamian meteorologist explained this strange phenomenon on his Facebook page:
“A hurricane is an area of low pressure, and at the center of a hurricane, there is an accumulation of water, which is called a storm surge. At the center of the hurricane, the water reaches a level 3 to 4.5 m above the normal high tide. This water has to come from somewhere - and in this case it comes from the outer edge of Hurricane Irma. Simply put, there is an excess of water in the center of the hurricane, and a shortage at the edges. This has already happened in the history of the Bahamas, although a long time ago - after hurricane number 5 in 1936. Residents then recalled how they collected fish and shells on the seabed, which was exposed after the storm.
Still don't believe it? Well, here's a video for you:
If you are in an area affected by Hurricane Irma, please follow all emergency instructions! Don't try to outsmart the elements!
Usually people see castles in the air in passing clouds, cute sheep, but the people of the United States see the president of Russia everywhere.
Fleeing from the devastating hurricane Irma, US residents peered so intently into the sky that they could “see” a human face. There were also those who saw in the clouds, which drove a whirlwind, the profile of the President of Russia.
The video posted on the Internet in a few minutes scored a thousand comments. Some wrote that: the face of the Russian president himself appeared for a few seconds. Behind the scenes, an excited voice can even be heard saying “face” (“face”). However, there is nothing surprising in the fact that Vladimir Putin seems everywhere to Americans, if you remember how much time the media and politicians devote to Russia and its leader.
It got to the point that some publications even wrote that it was Russia that "sends terrible winds on America, provokes the elements and generally controls the weather with might and main." However, among the Americans there are those who reacted to the video with humor.
Earlier, in satellite images and video of Hurricane Irma, currently raging in the Atlantic, social media users saw a creepy image resembling a human face. The footage, taken by the NASA space agency, was shown on the air of the CNN television channel. Commentators immediately called what was taken away "the face of the devil."
One Twitter user recalled that the infamous Hurricane Matthew, which killed more than 100 people in October 2016, also had a resemblance to the "devil's face".
Users are also shocked by the unusual phenomenon that "Irma" has done in the Bahamas. After the hurricane headed towards Florida, on the islands in the Atlantic Ocean, water left the beaches.
"At the center of the storm, where there is an area of extreme low pressure, water rises. Low pressure works like a pump mechanism - it sucks air in, and when it drops to extreme levels, it can change the shape of the ocean surface. The element pulls water to the center, and it leaves from the periphery," an expert explained the phenomenon to The Washington Post.
However, the next day the water still returned to the beaches of the Bahamas, which can be clearly seen in the photo below.
Meanwhile, a dangerous experiment was decided to be carried out by "Storm Chasers" - meteorologists Juston Drake and Simon Brewer from Florida. They approached the center of the hurricane by car and decided to manually measure the wind speed, and at the same time see if they could resist such a force.
They published the result of the experiment on Twitter. The recording was replicated by the world media. The footage shows that the researchers were almost blown away by the strongest gusts. Meteorologists measured the wind speed - almost 190 kilometers per hour.
Hurricane Irma is called the most powerful in the Atlantic in at least the last decade, more than 20 people have already become its victims. Last Wednesday, a hurricane hit the islands in the Caribbean. On the night from Friday to Saturday, the elements affected the northern coast of Cuba, on Sunday evening the hurricane hit Florida. According to forecasts, more than 30 million people may suffer from Irma.
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The authorities of Ecuador have deprived Julian Assange of asylum in the London embassy. The founder of WikiLeaks is detained by the British police, and this has already been called the biggest betrayal in the history of Ecuador. Why is Assange being avenged and what awaits him?
Julian Assange, a programmer and journalist from Australia, became widely known after the WikiLeaks website he founded published secret documents from the US State Department, as well as materials related to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010.
But it was quite difficult to find out who the policemen, supporting by the arms, were taking out of the building. Assange grew a beard and did not look at all like the energetic man that he had so far presented in photographs.
According to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, Assange's asylum was denied because of his repeated violations of international conventions.
He is expected to remain at a police station in central London until he appears before Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Why the President of Ecuador is accused of betrayal
Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa called the decision of the current government the biggest betrayal in the history of the country. "What he (Moreno. - Approx. ed.) did is a crime that humanity will never forget," Correa said.
London, on the contrary, thanked Moreno. The British Foreign Office believes that justice has prevailed. The representative of the Russian diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova, has a different opinion. "The hand of 'democracy' is squeezing the throat of freedom," she said. The Kremlin expressed the hope that the rights of the arrested person would be respected.
Ecuador harbored Assange because the former president was center-left, critical of U.S. policy, and welcomed WikiLeaks' release of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even before the Internet activist needed asylum, he managed to get to know Correa personally: he interviewed him for the Russia Today channel.
However, in 2017, the government in Ecuador changed, the country headed for rapprochement with the United States. The new president called Assange "a stone in the shoe" and immediately made it clear that his stay on the territory of the embassy would not be delayed.
According to Correa, the moment of truth came at the end of June last year, when US Vice President Michael Pence arrived in Ecuador on a visit. Then everything was decided. “You can be sure: Lenin is just a hypocrite. He has already agreed with the Americans about the fate of Assange. And now he is trying to make us swallow the pill, saying that Ecuador allegedly continues the dialogue,” Correa said in an interview with Russia Today.
How Assange made new enemies
The day before his arrest, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristin Hrafnsson said that Assange was under total surveillance. "WikiLeaks uncovered a massive spy operation against Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy," he said. According to him, cameras and voice recorders were placed around Assange, and the information received was transmitted to the administration of Donald Trump.
Hrafnsson specified that Assange was going to be expelled from the embassy a week earlier. This did not happen only because WikiLeaks made this information public. A high-ranking source told the portal about the plans of the Ecuadorian authorities, but the head of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, Jose Valencia, denied the rumors.
Assange's expulsion was preceded by a corruption scandal involving Moreno. In February, WikiLeaks published the INA Papers package, which traced the operations of the offshore company INA Investment, founded by the brother of the Ecuadorian leader. In Quito, they said that this was a plot by Assange with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and former head of Ecuador Rafael Correa to overthrow Moreno.
In early April, Moreno complained about Assange's behavior in Ecuador's London mission. “We have to protect the life of Mr. Assange, but he has already crossed all the lines in terms of violating the agreement that we came to with him,” the president said. “This does not mean that he cannot speak freely, but he cannot lie and hack ". At the same time, back in February last year, it became known that Assange at the embassy was deprived of the opportunity to interact with the outside world, in particular, he was turned off access to the Internet.
Why Sweden stopped persecuting Assange
At the end of last year, Western media, citing sources, reported that Assange would be charged in the United States. This was never officially confirmed, but it was precisely because of Washington's position that Assange had to take refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy six years ago.
Sweden, in May 2017, stopped investigating two cases of rape in which the founder of the portal was accused. Assange demanded compensation from the country's government for legal costs in the amount of 900,000 euros.
Earlier, in 2015, Swedish prosecutors also dropped three charges against him due to the statute of limitations.
Where did the rape investigation lead?
Assange arrived in Sweden in the summer of 2010, hoping to get protection from US authorities. But he was under investigation for rape. In November 2010, a warrant for his arrest was issued in Stockholm, and Assange was put on the international wanted list. He was detained in London, but was soon released on bail of 240 thousand pounds.
In February 2011, a British court ruled to extradite Assange to Sweden, followed by a series of successful appeals for the founder of WikiLeaks.
The British authorities placed him under house arrest before deciding to extradite him to Sweden. Breaking his promise to the authorities, Assange asked for asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, which was granted to him. Since then, the UK has had its own grievances against the founder of WikiLeaks.
What's next for Assange?
The man was re-arrested following a U.S. extradition request for publishing classified documents, police said. At the same time, Deputy Foreign Minister Alan Duncan said that Assange would not be sent to the United States if he faced the death penalty there.
In the UK, Assange is likely to appear in court on the afternoon of 11 April. This is stated on the WikiLeaks Twitter page. It is likely that the British authorities will seek a maximum sentence of 12 months, the man's mother said, citing his lawyer.
At the same time, the Swedish prosecutor's office is considering reopening the investigation into the rape allegation. Lawyer Elizabeth Massey Fritz, who represented the interests of the victim, will seek this.
