Which are the East Australian Current animals?

The East Australian Current is where Marlin and Dory meet Crush, Squirt, and other sea turtles on their way to find Nemo. Some of the animals that travel within the current include sea turtles, tunas, groupers (whose voices sound like Mickey Mouse), swordfish, lobsters, dolphins, and albatrosses (above the water).

1. Is there an East Australian Current?
2. Can you swim in the East Australian Current?
3. What current is in Nemo?
4. Is the East Australian Current fast or slow?
5. Do turtles really ride the EAC?
6. Do turtles really swim in currents?
7. How far offshore is the East Australian Current?
8. What is the Pacific current called?
9. Are ocean currents like Finding Nemo?
10. What type of current is the West Australian Current?
11. What kind of turtle is Crush?
12. What's the baby turtles name in Finding Nemo?
13. Is the EAC cold?
14. Is the East Australian Current deep?
15. What are the 4 currents that meet at Tasmania?

Is there an East Australian Current?

The East Australia Current is the largest ocean current close to Australia, moving as much as 30 million cubic meters of water per second in a broad ribbon that covers as much as 100 kilometers in width and 500 meters in depth.

Can you swim in the East Australian Current?

Let the current flow

The East Australian Current plays a crucial role in our east-coast climate and ecosystems. ... That is the equivalent of 16,000 Olympic swimming pools flowing along our coastline, every second. The current is almost 100km wide, and more than 1.5km deep – in fact, more like a ribbon than a tube.

What current is in Nemo?

Marlin: "I need to get to the East Australian Current - E A C." Crush: "You're ridin' it dude. Check it out!" The animated movie Finding Nemo is responsible for most children's (and parents') image of the East Australian Current (EAC).

Is the East Australian Current fast or slow?

The East Australian Current varies in size and can be between 15–100km wide, 200– 500m deep and flow at speeds of up to 4 knots.

Do turtles really ride the EAC?

New research has revealed that the EAC plays a critical role in transporting turtles between habitats across the southern Pacific Ocean.

Do turtles really swim in currents?

In the Atlantic, baby sea turtles ride ocean currents away from the beaches where they were born, into the vast aquatic jungle of the Sargasso Sea, and then back to those same beaches again when they are old enough to reproduce.

How far offshore is the East Australian Current?

The core of the EAC is about 100 nm offshore at Sydney's latitude but comes much closer to the coast at 35 S where a big lobe, or retroflection, carrying 23 to 25 °C water, curves from the southwest to the south and then into the east-northeast.

What is the Pacific current called?

The North Pacific Current (sometimes referred to as the North Pacific Drift) is a slow warm water current that flows west-to-east between 30 and 50 degrees north in the Pacific Ocean. The current forms the southern part of the North Pacific Subpolar Gyre and the northern part of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.

Are ocean currents like Finding Nemo?

The East Australian Current is a real thing, and it runs south from the Great Barrier Reef down the East coast of Australia just like in the movie. ... At the southern end of the EAC, the current breaks up into numerous eddies, or vortices of terror as Marlin would say, each of which are as wide as the EAC itself.

What type of current is the West Australian Current?

The West Australian Current (or the Western Australian Current), is a cool surface current of the Southern Ocean and Southern Indian Ocean. It starts as the Southern Indian Ocean Current, a part of the larger Antarctic Circumpolar Current (also known as the West Wind Drift).

What kind of turtle is Crush?

Crush is a character in Finding Nemo. He is a sea turtle who speaks in the manner of a surfer dude.

What's the baby turtles name in Finding Nemo?

Squirt is the son of Crush from the 2003 Disney/Pixar animated film, Finding Nemo and its 2016 sequel.

Is the EAC cold?

The East Australian Current (EAC) is a warm, southward, western boundary current that is formed from the South Equatorial Current (SEC) crossing the Coral Sea and reaching the eastern coast of Australia.

Is the East Australian Current deep?

Reaching depths greater than 3,300 feet (1,000 metres), the East Australian Current transports about 1,100 million cubic feet (30 million cubic metres) of water per second. ...

What are the 4 currents that meet at Tasmania?

In some ways Tasmania can be thought of as set in or influenced by three oceans: the Pacific on the east, the Indian on the west and the Southern on the south. Of course, this is oversimplified, but it does give some clues as to the potential complexity of the currents and water properties in the region.