The Atlantic Ocean is awesome

[The Boston Dangler]

from the awesomeness of the seafood, to the miracle of the gulf stream, the atlantic ocean kicks ass.

 

[Rubycon]

Gulf stream push heading north is fun. Flying fish all around going through the Sargasso Sea region to the frequently rough weather in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic".

This time of the year the Caribbean Sea is much calmer.

 

[KK]

cheesecake is a cake.

 

[Oceandevi]

The ocean encompasses almost a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179.7 million square kilometres (69.4 million sq mi and 161 million cubic mi) ?significantly larger than Earth's entire landmass, with room for another Africa to spare[citation needed]. Extending approximately 15,500 kilometres (9,600 mi) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the icy margins of Antarctica's Ross Sea in the south (although the Antarctic regions of the Pacific are sometimes described as part of the circumpolar Southern Ocean), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5°N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 kilometres (12,300 mi) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia and Peru - halfway across the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moon. The western limit of the ocean is often placed at the Strait of Malacca.[citation needed] The lowest point on earth?the Mariana Trench?lies 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) below sea level. Its average depth is 4,280 metres (14,000 ft)[1].


PACIFIC ftw

 

[Albatross]

too watery for my taste

 

[irishScott]

All hail Atlantica.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Oceandevi
The ocean encompasses almost a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179.7 million square kilometres (69.4 million sq mi and 161 million cubic mi) ?significantly larger than Earth's entire landmass, with room for another Africa to spare[citation needed]. Extending approximately 15,500 kilometres (9,600 mi) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the icy margins of Antarctica's Ross Sea in the south (although the Antarctic regions of the Pacific are sometimes described as part of the circumpolar Southern Ocean), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5°N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 kilometres (12,300 mi) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia and Peru - halfway across the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moon. The western limit of the ocean is often placed at the Strait of Malacca.[citation needed] The lowest point on earth?the Mariana Trench?lies 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) below sea level. Its average depth is 4,280 metres (14,000 ft)[1].


PACIFIC ftw

YAYUH! West coast represent! Holla!

 

[WelshBloke]

fish piss in it

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Oceandevi
The ocean encompasses almost a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179.7 million square kilometres (69.4 million sq mi and 161 million cubic mi) ?significantly larger than Earth's entire landmass, with room for another Africa to spare[citation needed]. Extending approximately 15,500 kilometres (9,600 mi) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the icy margins of Antarctica's Ross Sea in the south (although the Antarctic regions of the Pacific are sometimes described as part of the circumpolar Southern Ocean), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5°N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 kilometres (12,300 mi) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia and Peru - halfway across the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moon. The western limit of the ocean is often placed at the Strait of Malacca.[citation needed] The lowest point on earth?the Mariana Trench?lies 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) below sea level. Its average depth is 4,280 metres (14,000 ft)[1].


PACIFIC ftw

The Pacific is too cold for swimming, I can't drive to the Indian Ocean, and to get to the Arctic Ocean I'd have to drive past Palin's house and she's still pissed about the election.

OP: Where the hell did this "Southern Ocean" come from? We used to call it the South Atlantic, southern Indian Ocean, or south Pacific. The circum-Antarctic current didn't used to define a separate ocean. Dang splitters.

 

[sonambulo]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
i can see the atlantic from my door
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Blessed be thy abode

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
What are your favorite things about the Atlantic Ocean?

Bermuda Triangle

 

[eternalone]

The sun rises in the east but it sets in the west, throws up his "W" west side connection lulz.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Pacific Ocean > *

 

[DanTMWTMP]

shiet.. I've been living in the South Atlantic Ocean for almost a month now. I can't wait to get off of it damn it :|

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
shiet.. I've been living in the South Atlantic Ocean for almost a month now. I can't wait to get off of it damn it :|

In? Your quarters below the water line? I don't know if I could muster that.

 

[Fritzo]

I love how the Atlantic Ocean has a massive underwater shelf, and if this shelf ever falls over, it will create a wave large enough to wipe out the costal cities of the US and Europe.

 

[evident]

most parts of the jersey shore is crap and i'd much rather be in hawaii, but there are some beaches such as LBI that are great places to get away for a weekend

 

[Strk]

Well, it is only a few minutes away from me.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
i can see the atlantic from my door
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We now have an expert on the Atlantic posting in the thread!

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: JohnCU
i can see the atlantic from my door
text

We now have an expert on the Atlantic posting in the thread!

w00t, glad i can be an expert on something

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
shiet.. I've been living in the South Atlantic Ocean for almost a month now. I can't wait to get off of it damn it :|

In? Your quarters below the water line? I don't know if I could muster that.

haha, ya my stateroom is below the water line. It's no crusieship either; it's a small "global class" naval research vessel that can house maybe 60 personnel max. I can hear the hydraulic dampeners wooshing around, and the damn sonar echosounders going off every split second (So it sounds like chatty girly-mice plus lots of watery noises from the plumbing plus wooshing water noises going back and forth like a hurricane). .

 

[Red Squirrel]

I went across in a canoe once. Was pretty fun. Pack a good lunch...

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

haha, ya my stateroom is below the water line. It's no crusieship either; it's a small "global class" naval research vessel that can house maybe 60 personnel max. I can hear the hydraulic dampeners wooshing around, and the damn sonar echosounders going off every split second (So it sounds like chatty girly-mice plus lots of watery noises from the plumbing plus wooshing water noises going back and forth like a hurricane). .

I've heard those noises before. Glad I don't hear it all the time. I was in a cabin once that sounded like a dishwasher running 24/7. The noise would've been OK if there were no hum.

At least being low has less motion when it's rough like the cape is this time of the year.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

haha, ya my stateroom is below the water line. It's no crusieship either; it's a small "global class" naval research vessel that can house maybe 60 personnel max. I can hear the hydraulic dampeners wooshing around, and the damn sonar echosounders going off every split second (So it sounds like chatty girly-mice plus lots of watery noises from the plumbing plus wooshing water noises going back and forth like a hurricane). .

I've heard those noises before. Glad I don't hear it all the time. I was in a cabin once that sounded like a dishwasher running 24/7. The noise would've been OK if there were no hum.

At least being low has less motion when it's rough like the cape is this time of the year.

haha ya. We're going to meet the Pacific later this week. We've already weathered through two storms, and it's getting rougher and rougher as we get closer to Cape Horn .


I've posted this pic in two other threads before, but here's a pic of a storm we passed through last week:
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/DanTMWTMP/IMG_6064.JPG

We're currently circling the Falklands. It's interesting, we have quite a bit of British scientists, an ex-navy captain of the Argentinian Navy (who haven't been in these waters since he fought against the British in 1982), and a number of Argentinian Navy scientists aboard. Heh, and just yesterday, we could see the easternmost lighthouse beacon from the Islas Malvinas (aka the Falklands).

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

haha ya. We're going to meet the Pacific later this week. We've already weathered through two storms, and it's getting rougher and rougher as we get closer to Cape Horn .


I've posted this pic in two other threads before, but here's a pic of a storm we passed through last week:
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/DanTMWTMP/IMG_6064.JPG

Do those waves cause pressure changes that sound like toilets flushing in your quarters? :Q