How Things Work: Oceans by Time-Life Books

Time-Life Books presents How Things Work Oceans We have this cultural perception that the ocean is a void, that it's kind of big and empty, that it's just the space between the interesting bits. And the problem is that that's rubbish. The ocean is doing things. We don't talk about it very much in society. When we talk about the ocean, we talk about the fish or the whales or the pollution. We talk about the things in the water, but not what the water itself is doing. The water itself is this engine. It's distinct, it's different in different places. It's got different components. They are moving over and around each other to form this engine. So it's not random, it's not that the ocean kind of just is a pool of water. And sometimes there's a current, on the surface there's this three dimensional engine where it's, it's turning over from the top to the bottom very, very slowly. And then it's kind of moving horizontally at the surface. And then there's these smaller little swirls at the surface. And then there's tiny, tiny things that happen at the ocean surface and further down. And all of this forms an engine. It's a physical entity that is doing different things in different places and different parts of it are moving around. Nautical Oceanography Marine Science BKNK