New info about Corryvreckan?

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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...corryvreckan-uncovered-by-scientists.19404800

Interesting but is there anything new here?
Dave

 

[Mistroma]

Probably that it isn't due to a rock pinnacle. That's the story I've heard since I was a boy and didn't know it wasn't correct.

Fun place to sail with lots of odd effects. To the South you have an amphidrome between mainland, Islay and Jura. Anchored in Lowlandman's bay Jura lots of times and it's odd not to bother about tidal range (it's zero). But then you can get a fair tide all the way North to Oban (or close to Tobermory on a good day).

Tide doesn't half sweep you up through various narrows, close to rocks etc. Always twitchy passing the Gulf of Corryvreckan in case we are swept towards it. But has always turned out to be an interesting sail.

 

[NormanS]

I'm not sure that having "surveyed it to an International Standard" will actually make it any "safer for people at sea". It's still the same Corryvreckan, and still needs the same respect.
I suppose that Sams have to try to justify their existence.

 

[Searush]

The relief piccies are very pretty tho aren't they?

 

[agurney]

There are lots of dive reports and photographs of a pinnacle, for example:
http://www.ukdiving.co.uk/places/coastal/articles/corryvreckan.htm and
http://www.divescotland.com/reefspinnaclescorry.htm

I also know several divers who claim to have dived 'the pinnacle', and I've no reason to disbelieve them. However, note that the 27M pinnacle in the (electronic) chart is NOT the pinnacle that's in the dive guides, though neither is it at the centre of the whirlpool!

 

[A1Sailor]

I'm not sure that having "surveyed it to an International Standard" will actually make it any "safer for people at sea". It's still the same Corryvreckan, and still needs the same respect.
I suppose that Sams have to try to justify their existence.

I was about to post exactly the same response. Not only do they need to justify their existence, but presumably also the cost of their echo sounder!

 

[Mark-1]

http://www.ukdiving.co.uk/places/coastal/articles/corryvreckan.htm and
http://www.divescotland.com/reefspinnaclescorry.htm
However, note that the 27M pinnacle in the (electronic) chart is NOT the pinnacle that's in the dive guides, though neither is it at the centre of the whirlpool!

However, the diagram in your first link is certainly referring to the 27m feature on the North side. As does the text. That's where I've thought the pinnacle was.