Prevailing winds in northern and southern latitudes help to create cold-water surface currents that flow back toward the equator along the west coast of continents. Surface waters freeze as they ...

One, our daily rip current risk. Each day depending ... And two, our ocean water temperatures at the shore are wicked cold! Here is a graphic on sea surface temps (and shark sightings in the ...

Ocean currents are movements of water horizontally ... Near Antarctica and Greenland, cold, salty surface water sinks because it is very dense. In Antarctica this is mostly because very salty ...