whirlpool

The suites themselves are spacious, with separate living and sleeping areas, a large bathroom with a soaking or whirlpool tub, and comfortable beds.

Last August, three hikers drowned while swimming in a whirlpool that unexpectedly formed at the end of the same trail.

That adds extra freight to his reminder that Katrina’s tragedy was entirely manmade — a whirlpool of failed levees, systems and common bloodthirsty inhumanity.

The Atlantic island's position in the Hebridean archipelago protects it from the ocean swells, but occasionally brings inhabitants the challenge of navigating the Corryvreckan whirlpools.

And that whirlpool — getting lost in your own head about being the only one who can pull it off — that’s where the danger lies.