First of all, i have tried finding answers on internet and too using google. But either everyone is talking about measuring sea levels and the acceptance of fifth ocean or i am not using correct keywords.
**My question is** if ocean is a single water body, then why it is divided into 5. What’s the basis of division? Does two different seas have difference in water? Because i have seen a photo some years ago about 2 Ocean meeting but not dissolving. Is that thing real?
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When you stand at the southern tip of South Africa, Cape Agulhas, and you look West, the ocean is normally blue and quiet. This water is very cold and came a long way from Antartica without impacting many “obstacles” which cause turbulence and picking up dirt. We call this the Atlantic ocean.
If you then look east, the ocean looks green and violent. The water is much warmer, dirtier and tends to make waves while its flowing counter to the wind direction. This is called the Indian ocean, and you guessed it, this water comes from the area south of India (and Asia in general, but the Dutch on their way to India in the 1600s didn’t care about other places yet), where it spent a lot of time near the equator, heating up.
It is easier for me to see the natural border between the two oceans, than what it is to see the natural border between Europe and Asia.
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