Tales of Castaways
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:03 pm
Borne on a Black Current
For thousands of years, the Pacific Ocean’s strong currents have swept shipwrecked Japanese sailors onto American shores
* By Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano* Smithsonian.com, June 16, 2009
The Kuroshio, or "Black Current," is the Pacific Ocean's answer to the Atlantic's Gulf Stream.
Click Here for a well written if somewhat slanted and simplistic story from Smithsonian Mag
For thousands of years, the Pacific Ocean’s strong currents have swept shipwrecked Japanese sailors onto American shores
* By Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano* Smithsonian.com, June 16, 2009
The Kuroshio, or "Black Current," is the Pacific Ocean's answer to the Atlantic's Gulf Stream.
Click Here for a well written if somewhat slanted and simplistic story from Smithsonian Mag