Tidal current
The Saltstraumen
Tidal currents (also known as “tidal currents”) are mainly compensatory currents near the coast , caused by the tides and the alternation of ebb and flow . Occasionally tidal creeks in the Wadden Sea are also referred to as tidal currents. The change in tidal currents (“ capsizing of the tide ”) does not have to coincide with the highest or lowest water level.
Significant tidal currents
- Bitches between Ramsey Island and the south west Wales coast
- Tidal wave in the Turnagain Arm near Anchorage , Alaska
- Moskenstraumen , the legendary maelstrom in Norway
- Naruto vortices on the Japanese coast near Naruto
- Old Sow in the Gulf of Maine on the North American east coast
- Pentland Firth between Scotland and Orkney
- Saltstraumen near Bodø in Norway, the strongest tidal current in the world
- Skookumchuck Narrows in British Columbia, Canada
- Alderney Strait (12 knots +) between La Hague and Alderney
- Strait of Corryvreckan on the north west coast of Scotland