NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
EAC
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jun 11, 17:40 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jun 11, 17:40 +1000
> 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.