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> Frank Reed:
> And just for fun: What's the most famous ocean current? Three years ago,
> it
> was probably the Gulf Stream, but that title now almost certainly goes to
> its
> down-under counterpart, the East Australian Current or EAC. Thanks to a
> computer-generated turtle and a couple of little fish in a Disney movie,
> this
> ocean current's name has become known to hundreds of millions of people
> worldwide.
Don't know about famous, but unpredictable and strong it can be. It is
reputed to run at between 2 and 4 knots. I've measured its effect as about 4
knots over a run of 20 nm.
