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What happens to the water under a hurricane and how deep does the turbulence beneath that hurricane go?
I was watching a documentary on shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico, and three of them they surmise may have been sunk by a hurricane, I then started wondering, what happens to the water under a hurricane, does it rotate as well? How far down does this disturbance go?
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- ?Lv 73 years ago
This URL has the best answer about what happens to the water under a hurricane and how deep the turbulence beneath that hurricane goes.
"Since the hurricane’s surface winds are cyclonic (see Hurricane Structure and Primary Circulation), the wind stress on the ocean surface is also cyclonic, causing the currents at the sea surface to be cyclonic initially.
"Just like in the atmosphere, however, the Coriolis Force deflects the currents to the right (in the Northern Hemisphere), and the net result is that on average, the currents in the ocean are directed outward away from the storm center."
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Source(s): Meteorologist. - Valleycat1Lv 73 years ago
Yes the high winds of a hurricane create huge waves though not necessarily a whirlpool effect. Waves are a surface event, so just under the depth of the lowest trough between waves things are pretty calm. Submarines and a lot of ocean life will ride out hurricanes or big storms by staying below the surface.
