Splash and Bubbles
What’s a Current?
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Wave and Splash explain what ocean currents are to Bubbles and Dunk. Do you know?
Splash and his friends have a race around the reef and Splash wins by riding the currents instead of swimming. Bubbles and Dunk then want to know all about the currents so they too can race faster.
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Splash and Bubbles
What’s a Current?
Clip | 1m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
Splash and his friends have a race around the reef and Splash wins by riding the currents instead of swimming. Bubbles and Dunk then want to know all about the currents so they too can race faster.
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that moves faster than all the surrounding water.
They can take you around the reef, or all the way around the world.
- Yep.
See, when I was swimming all over the world, I learned that the currents connect all the different oceans together, to form one big ocean.
- There are currents all over the place.
Even here at Takeoff Point.
I'll let you in on a little secret of the currents.
The further you get up from the seafloor, the stronger the current.
- Wave is right.
That's why I kept swimming up.
You guys swam close down to the ocean floor, so the currents didn't do you any good.
- Currents, pfft, seriously?
- Yeah, you expect us to believe that?
- Well, yeah, because it's true.
Be right back.
Uh, let's see.
Ah!
Okay.
Watch this.
[grunts] - Wha--?
- Whoa.
- [grunts] Okay, here I go.
both: Whoa!
- Ha.
- Whoo.
There it goes.
- Yeah, but it's just so weird.
- Yeah, are you sure it's real?
- [chuckles] All right, looks like the only way you guys are really gonna understand is if you take the current for yourselves.
Come on.
Whoo.
- Go on.
Go on, you two, go on.
- I got a bad feeling about this.
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