";s:4:"text";s:28351:" purchased them. A good day's walk or part cycle as the public road ends several miles from the top of the island. A thrill-seeking photographer drowned after he was sucked into a deadly whirlpool he was trying to film, an inquest heard. MARINE scientists have solved a centuries-old Scottish mystery, by uncovering what causes the Corryvreckan whirlpool. 'He had a plastic horse's head that he wanted to put on. Flood tides and inflow from the Firth of Lorne to the west can drive the waters of Corryvreckan to waves of more than 9 metres (30 ft), and the roar of the resulting maelstrom, which reaches .