John Mwangi
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Why the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Refuse to Merge
I am sure you've seen it or caught a regard of some vids of vessels sailing through a weird line of water in those images one side is dark blue and clear and the other side is greenish and salty looking some have claimed the footage shows the boundaries between abysses and that water defies all its own laws by not mixing well it turns out that is not exactly true our earth is over 70 percent covered by water and out of all of that H2O two of the biggest bodies are the Pacific and Atlantic abysses these massive stretches of salty virtuousness are home to some of the world's most fascinating brutes from the smallest Plankton to the largest jumbos while we may have given these abysses separate names they are constantly mixing and mingling with each other anyhow of how we choose to draw our Charts is like a noway - ending cotillion party with water currents doing the Cha- Cha between the Pacific and Atlantic so do not be wisecracked by those imaginary borders we have drawn on our Charts these abysses are always in stir and connected in further ways than we can imagine now the Pacific Ocean Takes the cutlet for being the largest and deepest ocean on the earth it's actually deeper than the Grand Canyon meanwhile the Atlantic Ocean comes in alternate ah a red strip but sizes and everything right each of these abysses has its own unique set of characteristics for illustration did you know that the saltness of the Atlantic that is the swab content is advanced than that of the Pacific or Indian abysses or that the Waters of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean are indeed saltier still it's because of the lower saltness Waters from the deep ocean can not fluently flow in and water evaporates faster than downfall can replace it it's like the ocean has its own seasoning preferences hey who oh now let's talk about a little place called Cape Horn if you look at it on a chart you will have to scroll way down through South America it's also where the Pacific and Atlantic abysses come together to uh play then we can also find a important current that transports water from west to east displacing volumes from the Pacific into the Atlantic but let me tell you traveling around Cape Horn is no joke it's a turbulent and dangerous passage and numerous stalwart mariners have been lost trying it and eventually let's address the giant in the room or should I say the two- toned ocean you know the bone
By John Mwangiabout a year ago in History