Sarah and Sam try to wrap their heads around what makes the top of the ocean be like that. We're talking Coriolis Forces, Ekman pumping, and more gyres than you can shake a stick at.

References

https://www.britannica.com/biography/V-Walfrid-Ekman

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_currents/media/supp_cur04e.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/coriolis-effect/

https://www.nap.edu/resource/oneuniverse/motion_32-33.html

https://earth.nullschool.net/

https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/winds/Wx_Terms/Flight_Environment.htm

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/3/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sargassosea.html

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/upwelling.html