When I think of water dangers, I picture cruise ships capsizing in shark-infested water. One reader, though, has been thinking of the dangers of whirlpool tubs. The reader called to say she was ...

A YouTube video of a huge whirlpool that appeared in a river in the Baltic state of Latvia has gone viral, garnering more than nine million hits in just three days. In the seven-minute-long video ...

In 1841, Edgar Allan Poe referred to a maelstrom, or powerful whirlpool in the ocean, as a "whole sea ... lashed into ungovernable fury." Now 172 years later, a YouTube video titled "Amazing monstrous ...

Mariners who escaped the onslaught of the tsunami soon had to contend with another peril - the appearance of vast whirlpools off the coast of Japan. The powerful vortices appeared yesterday morning ...