Those Big Wheels Keep Spinning. Video Of Ocean Currents: "Perpetual Ocean."

Atlantic

Gulf Stream

Southafrica

Southern Ocean

Westernpacific

Kuroshio Current

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX7YfXFQgH0]

Sailors take note of the currents dancing in front of your eyes.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rETDTTXJjfU]

Can't get enough? Zone out for 20 minutes with the full length version of swirling ocean surface currents. 

Created by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.