survived). The "Norway maelstrom" is also mentioned in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

In the Life of St Columba, the author, Adomnan of Iona, attributes to the saint miraculous knowledge of a particular bishop who sailed into a whirlpool off the coast of Ireland. In Adomnan's narrative, he quotes Columba saying

The Corryvreckan whirlpool plays a key role in the 1945 Powell and Pressburger

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