Do turtles really ride the East Australian Current?

Do turtles really ride the East Australian Current?

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

What is the East Australian Current in Finding Nemo?

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).

Is the California Current from Nemo real?

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. However, the film’s portrayal of the current as a narrow stream in which fish can hop in and out of is pretty far from the truth.

Do fish ride the EAC?

The East Australian Current is real and actually traveled by fish in the summer. As for fish “riding” the EAC the way they do in the movie, some scientists say they have seen tropical fish “hitching a ride” on the current, though it is not quite as fast as it appears in the movie.

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.

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.

Do turtles ride the 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.