Seymour Narrows

Seymour Narrows
Approaching Seymour Narrows from the north
Seymour Narrows is located in British Columbia
Seymour Narrows
Seymour Narrows
Location of Seymour Narrows in the Discovery Islands
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
Coordinates50°08.2′N 125°21.2′W / 50.1367°N 125.3533°W / 50.1367; -125.3533
TypeStrait
Part ofDiscovery Passage
Max. width750 metres (820 yd)
Average depth100 m (330 ft)

Seymour Narrows is a 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) section of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia known for strong tidal currents.[1] Discovery Passage lies between Vancouver Island at Menzies Bay, British Columbia and Quadra Island except at its northern end where the eastern shoreline is Sonora Island. The section known as Seymour Narrows begins about 18 km (11 mi) from the south end of Discovery Passage where it enters the Georgia Strait near Campbell River. For most of the length of the narrows, the channel is about 750 metres (820 yd) wide. Through this narrow channel, currents can reach 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).

Etymology

The narrows were named for Rear Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour who commanded the Pacific Station from 1844 to 1848.[2]: 240  Seymour Narrows was described by Captain George Vancouver as "one of the vilest stretches of water in the world." Even after Ripple Rock was removed,[3] it remains a challenging route. In March 1981, the freighter Star Philippine ran aground in the narrows.

Hydrology

Seymour Narrows is notable also because the flowing current can be sufficiently turbulent to realize a Reynolds number of about , i.e. one hundred million, which is possibly the largest Reynolds number regularly attained in natural water channels on Earth (the current speed is about 8 m/s, 26 ft/s, the nominal depth about 100 m, 330 ft).[4] Turbulence develops usually around a Reynolds number of 2000, depending on the geometric structure of the channel.

Seymour Narrows delineates part of the northern extent of the Salish Sea.[5]

Ripple Rock

Main article: Ripple Rock

Ripple Rock was a submerged twin-peak mountain that lay just nine feet beneath the surface of Seymour Narrows. It was a serious hazard to shipping, sinking 119 vessels and taking 114 lives. The gunboat USS Saranac was one of the rock's first recorded victims. On April 5, 1958, after twenty-seven months of tunneling and engineering work, Ripple Rock was blown up with 1,375 tons of Nitramex 2H explosive making it the largest commercial, non-nuclear blast in North America. The Halifax Explosion in 1917 was larger but it was not a deliberate act.

The event was broadcast live on Canadian television. The footage is also regularly screened at the Campbell River Museum.

Vancouver band The Evaporators wrote a song about the event and released it on their 2004 album Ripple Rock.

References

  1. ^ "Seymour Narrows". BC Geographical Names.
  2. ^ Akrigg, G.P.V.; Akrigg, Helen B. (1986), British Columbia Place Names (3rd, 1997 ed.), Vancouver: UBC Press, ISBN 0-7748-0636-2
  3. ^ "B.C.'s deadly Ripple Rock blown up" (CBC Broadcast). 1958-04-05. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
  4. ^ Grant HL, Stewart RW, Moilliet A (1962). "Turbulence spectra from a tidal channel". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 12 (2): 241–268. doi:10.1017/S002211206200018X. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
  5. ^ Environmental History and Features of Puget Sound Archived 2009-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, NOAA-NWFSC

Canadian Tide and Current Tables, Vol. 6, 2003

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