Thanks to Dr Simon Clark for proofreading my script; there's a link to his channel in the description! Also, I realised that I pronounced Reinga as /reɪ'iŋgə/ when it should be something close to /'/riˈæŋə/; apologies, in the moment I reverted to full-English-tourist mode and forgot!
I always thought that "two oceans meeting" sounded weird, since the earth really only has one ocean that we have just artificially divided with invisible borders.
It’s not quite artificially divided, yes it all mixes at some point but sometimes the criteria to assign an entity to a mass of water is geographical/physical (currents of water with different temperature, salinity, etc.), and other times it is more political (like with Mediterranean or Adriatic). There are definitely differences and lines that can be drawn between the oceans because while there is one world ocean, it is not the same across the globe
@@madabouthollyoaks411 You seem to know a lot about this. Do you know if they have different constituents on different tectonic plates or if it's more reliant on the currents?
Gamerdrengen took some classes in college haha I just really enjoy the topic. It’s a mixture of a lot of things, less to do with the tectonic plate they flow over than salinity, which influences density, wind, which is affected by the rotation of the earth on its axis and the continental plate it blows over, which in turn causes surface circulation, which acts with and against deep ocean circulation. Hope that makes sense, basically it’s a variety of factors that bleed into each other in a cycle, but you could say that the earth’s orbit on its axis and its orbit around the sun are some major influencers
You can actually see the difference if you view the ocean from something like google earth. How do you think birds can fly the distance over oceans without water?
@@ebenezermbizvo9845no, simply no. Did you even watch this video? 😂 Oceans are huge, they might have different characteristics at different regions, but the mixing is gradual and happens over an extremely large area. So you can't see anything really at those "hypothetical boundaries", it's not like right after the boundary suddenly it's a different ocean with waves propagating different side. Even thinking that exists is unbelievably stupid thing...
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My brother used to live in the Dominican republic and we've gone to a couple different beach towns there, specifically one at juandolio, one near la Romana. These towns are maybe 30 miles apart, but one is on the Caribbean and one is on the Atlantic the water has different temperature, clarity salinity. You can tell in the way the water foams when the waves break, how high you float when you lay on your back. Very different beaches and but only one province over
That’s a good observation. Oceans don’t collide in a frothing inferno because the currents are oblivious to the lines drawn by humans. They do, however, have different characteristics, and mix in large areas. 30 miles should be more than sufficient to notice the characteristics of the Caribbean waters vs the Atlantic Ocean.
I've always just assumed oceans are made up, there's one ocean since it's all connected. Names for different areas of water are just to make it easier for us to be a bit more... pacific.
Some of them are well connected, some not. The Southern Ocean abuts the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific with no real boundary, but its opposite number, the Arctic Ocean is largely cut off - it is only joined to the Pacific by a small strait. The Pacific is largely cut off from the Atlantic, except for a section between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula...
@@anonb4632 the arctic isn't "only joined to the Pacific by a small strait" you have the whole Atlantic that flows into it as well and that section between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula is at least 1000 km wide
I live in Cape Town, it’s known for table mountain and the two oceans that collide, everything is called like the “two oceans aquarium “ or “two oceans restaurant”
Rose: Some people put on flour but i think that makes it too heavy, so i add a sverdrup of mollasses in it... my kids always liked it this way... Dorothy: Tell me Rose, does any of your kid still have their own teeth?...
My exact feelings earlier this year when I went to Cap Spartel in Morocco, supposedly the border between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Maybe there’s a specific point where the plates meet and you could consider such distinctions from that point of view, but for the people selling stuff outside the museum or taking pictures in the signpost, it’s just local mythology.
Scientifically, because of the difference in the salinity and densities of these two water bodies, a surface tension developed between them that acts like a thin wall which prevents them from mixing. If you see the oceans from the airplane, it is visible.
The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress. God has said: He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress. (Quran, 55:19-20) But when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the existence of “a forbidding partition” with the barrier. God has said in the Quran: He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition. (Quran, 25:53)
When I went to the Cape of Good Hope near Cape Town, South Africa I saw exactly what those photos showed and you could see a linemof two different colors
The turbulent water behind you appears to be what us nautical types refer to as a "tidal race". You often get them off points of land where the tidal flow is disturbed and can also be made worse by wind, causing what is known as a "confused sea" where you get choppy waves travelling in different directions.
I found a depth map of this area a few years ago, as I was also trying to debunk the whole “two oceans meeting” thing. There’s a shallow area right where all the waves are breaking.
Well I’ve just been to “Skagen” in Denmark - and you can clearly watch the difference between waves on the west side and east side when standing on the tip. They are much more violent on the west side. You can also clearly see the waves collide at the tip :)
That would be really cool, but it might have been because the waves on one side of the peninsular had a different fetch length to the waves on the other. This would cause different wave sizes. I'm no geography expert, but it seems to me that this phenomenon wasn't due to an arbitrary line, rather different conditions which were directly caused by the fact that 'Skagen' is a peninsula. Hope this helps :)
Tom I adore your videos, your insistence on well researched material and always surprising nuggets of knowledge should owe you your own BBC documentary series.
In Denmark, at the tip of "Skagen" (the northern most region of the Jutland peninsula), it is said that the two seas, the Kattegat and Skagerrak, collide. If you look at pictures from high above the area, there are clearly two distinctly different coloured oceans, demarcated by the white line that the two colliding set of waves form, which makes me wonder what you'd say about that, and whether or not those are actually two seas colliding or not.
And the sea plus currents around Grenen, the utmost tip, can be quite rough at times, so it's better to go further out when it's windy. BTW, it's a really nice area to visit. Hope to sail there this summer. /Nabo fra Gøteborg
I've seen this separation of water masses in many places in the oceans. Just different water masses. Colour, transparency, a little foam separating them. It's nice.
> Cape Point is where the Atlantic- & Indian-Ocean meets. > Cape Agulhas is the Southernmost part of Africa *(but not the spot where the 2 oceans meet)* > Both Cape Agulhas & Cape Point are places that fall within the borders of the Western Cape Province.
Cape Point in South Africa is where the extremely cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean meet the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Cold Benguella Current off the west coast meeting the warm Mozambiquen Current off the east coast.
Those are not seas they are adjacent seas. And actually there is no things as 2 seas since all the seas are connected and all to the ocean, and there's no thing as multiple oceans either since all the water is just a gigantic ocean except lakes, ponds etc.
Zapid according to you there is no such thing as countries since they are connected together in a continent which also isn’t a thing since Asia Africa and Europe are connected together except America and Australia
MightyGlory thats not the same thing dummy. Realisticaly, theres not but since humans fought over the land and made the ”borders” itself we have countries. Still not the same thing whatsoever
The tip of Cape York, Ausrtalia, where the Arafura and Coral seas meet, produce some amazing currents whereby there appears to be a definite step of around 30cm in the water under certain conditions.
You need to travel to the bottom of western Australia where the India and southern oceans come together. I've been there and seen the definite visible difference between the two.
صدقت ربي يا عظيم (بينهما برزخ لا يبغيان) صدقت يا عظيم يا مالك الملك سبحانك ربي خلقت فأبدعت اللهم صل و سلم على سيدنا و حبيبنا المصطفى عليه أفضل الصلاة و السلام
Hey Tom Scott, there's a place called Dhanushkodi ( also know as Ghost Town) in rameshwaram in TN. Here the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean and it's a picturesque to witness. The waters of Bay of Bengal are quite calm and those of Indian Ocean are very turbulent. I guess you should witness it.
You should visit Cape Agulhas in South Africa, where the warm Indian meets the cold Atlantic. Is it any wonder the nearby Cape Town is also known as "the Cape of Storms"?
Cape of Good Hope is the old name for the Province that is now commonly known as the Western Cape. > Cape Point is where the Atlantic- & Indian-Ocean meets. > Cape Agulhas is the Southernmost part of Africa *(but not the spot where the 2 oceans meet)* > Both Cape Agulhas & Cape Point are places that fall within the borders of the Western Cape Province.
Next Episode: "Sushi king, at the very end of Dunhill road, is known for being the king of sushi. The truth though, is a little more complicated than that."
Yes, the water is pressed up from the bottom in a swirl motion which goes opposite the waves. Then the water comes to the surface, you get a zero water velocity zone, which appear flat. A single scull starts to swirl the stern then you row past a point, there the lake depth goes from 8-10 m to say 3-4 meters, and the wind is vertical or has an angle to the under water structure. The water looks nice and flat. But it is not.
you should go to cape town ,cape point is where you'll actually see where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean meet but don't meet .it is really fascinating. the reason they don't mix is because of the difference in water density , temperature and salinity of the glacial melt water making it difficult to mix . same with the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
I'm just waiting for the day i'm gonna casually meet Tom in my city in Italy (Cividale del Friuli) while he's finding something weird to talk about again
This was mentioned in the Quran 1400 years ago. Suratul Al Rahman. Alhamdulilah our Quran is really a miracle for us and Allah owns everything and everyone in this world. Allahuakbar
I was sailing in Denmark once and was at the tip of Denmark where the baltic and north sea (idk what its called in english) meet. The waves of both collieded with each other, resulting in high splashes :D also they had different colors
We called them the Baltic and North Seas in English. (Unless we learn our geography from the board game Diplomacy, in which case we consider Skagerrak separate from either sea.) The only Bavarian Sea that we know as the Chiemsee, a landlocked lake.
@@gzey1337 : I thought that you might have, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions, because names can be weird. A Pole and a Spaniard means completely different things by Galicia, for example.
The northernmost tip of Denmark where Kattegatt and Skagerrak meet has exactly that pattern. Two wavesystems clashing into each other. There you can see exactly how waves from the two watersystems meet and collide from two different directions. I recommend a visit to Skagen!!
Different oceans are just boundaries arbitrarily drawn by humans through associations with land masses, without any account for the ocean current or mixing
I agree. If we take the case of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meeting, It is only at Cape Horn where the waters of the Pacific Ocean meet the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and nowhere else. It is misleading to present a video showing a dark blue and light blue waters meeting with a defined line separating the two as the waters of Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean meeting at a certain point.
This is a very interesting video. I say this because I've always heard that the fishing in Morocco is really good because the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean. Is this yet another myth? Could whatever is "good" about the fishing be the result of something else?
Maybe not Oceans, but rivers certainly do that. Although they do eventually mix. For example, the Green river & the Colorado river run side by side, in the same channel, for possibly over a mile. I literally rode down the center of the river with my left foot in the much cooler, clearer Green river with my right in the Colorado which was much warmer and filled with sediment. Very cool.
The same thing is happening at the very tip of Denmark. This has also received the same title “where two oceans collide”. It does have some truth in the case of Denmark, because the line where the Kattegat waters meets Skagerrak is the same place where the waves collide.
Actually the statement that different bodies of water can meet is in fact correct. And the differences can be very obvious when currents come from different regions temperatures and or turbidity. This can happen a long way from land.
In South Africa, you really CAN tell the difference between the Atlantic ocean on the west coast and the Indian ocean on the east. The Indian ocean is warmer and you can swim without a wetsuit, the Atlantic... freezing cold. Even during summer.
2:28 I don't know about the direction of that "Tokyo" sign... It should be pointing closer to the "Equator" (North) rather than to "Sydney" (West). The sign appears to be off by about 20-30 degrees..
@@masontyson Clarification. The Koran only mentions existence. The actual scientific explanation is not there. (Like the Koran also tells of the developmental stages of the embryo, but not in the way we know it today.)
Well you guys should visit the southern most point of India at Rameshwaram. You can see three oceans meeting together. Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. All three different colours and can clearly them with distinct lines.
makes sense, two types of sediment water and one ocean, might not be as clear as the gulf of alaska due to the sheer distance, once again though it is because of rivers and not oceans.
@@alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696indians genuinely don't understand how water works. It's not their fault, their government tells them rivers are literally magic
@@moussetache Oceanographers, in the wake of the scientific progress in this age, have discovered the barrier between two seas. They have found that a barrier separates two neighboring seas. The barrier moves between them , Because of this barrier, the two neighboring seas mingle so slowly that the amount of water that passes from one sea to the other acquires the characteristics of the other sea while crossing the barrier which overturns the waters crossing from one sea to the other, keeping each sea with its own characteristics So there’s a barrier that can be seen but it’s not actually a wall, it’s just the separation of different characteristics
Saw the thumbnail, and was disappointed that you weren't filming at Two Ocean Pass ;) (Seriously though, it's tough to get out there, and would probably be even tougher carrying camera equipment. It's an isolated spot southeast of Yellowstone NP, with a little marshy area that drains into the Atlantic via the Yellowstone River, and into the Pacific via the Snake. Isa Lake inside the park does the same thing.)
Since, according the the IHO the Tasman SEA is a body of water in the Pacific OCEAN, there is no oceanic meeting in NZ. The Indian and Pacific meet at the bottom point of Tasmania....
@@javasiege Love the video, very interesting. However, as one myth is debunked, another is born in the ambiguity of the wording from 2:13 - "The Tasman Sea meets the Pacific at North Cape." The IHO has determined that the Tasman Sea is a body of water that belongs to the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, it cannot "meet" that ocean at North Cape. The Tasman Sea ends/begins at North Cape, not Cape Reinga - true. The Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean at North Cape - not true. The only ocean that the Tasman Sea meets is the Indian Ocean, at South East Cape in Tasmania.
مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيٰنِۙ அவனே, இரண்டு கடல்களையும் ஒன்றோடொன்று சந்திக்கச் செய்தான். (அல்குர்ஆன் : 55:19) بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيٰنِ (ஆயினும்) அவற்றிடையே ஒரு தடுப்பும் இருக்கிறது; அதை அவை மீறமாட்டா. (அல்குர்ஆன் : 55:20) فَبِاَىِّ اٰلَاۤءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ ஆகவே, நீங்கள் இரு சாராரும் உங்கள் (இரு சாராருடைய) இறைவனின் அருட்கொடைகளில் எதைப் பொய்யாக்குவீர்கள்? (அல்குர்ஆன் : 55:21)
It is more visible offshore, entrance of the Red Sea, Cape Finistère or the Persian Gulf. It is not fixed, needs specific weather to be seen etc. The difference between water masses is more distinct deeper down, where it affects visibility.
Why didn’t you go to Kanyakumari? It’s the tip of the indian peninsula where not 2 but *3* oceans meet: The Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal.
@@sarangshibu not really, but if you took a picture of each sea from the west, south and east of Kanyakumari, you’d see the waters are coloured different
And whether you believe it or no but allah mentioned the two seas 1400 years ago in quran as he says Surah Ar-Rahman, Chapter 55, verses 19-20: "He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them which they do not overstep Subhanallah
And guess what tom? This is explained in detail in the Quran 1400 years ago. Two Oceans Meet But Do Not Mix Written in the holy Quran more than 1.400 years ago (Surat Ar-Rahman 55:19 , 55:20). 1400 years ago in the desert :)
Shaat-al-arab which is rich in sediment pours sediment rich freshwater over the Persian gulf. Nothing akin to two seas. The Persian gulf also has coral reefs as mentioned. as tom said in the beginning regarding some of those.
@@صالحالعمرو-ز6ن I will explain in arabic. شط العرب يحتوي على الكثير من الرواسب والطين لدرجة انه كل سنة الحكومة العرافية تزيل جزر طينية من ساحل البصرة. بالفيديو قال توم سكوتت انه هناك بعض المناطق اللي يقولون عليها الناس محيطين أو بحرين يلتقيان بينما ما هي الا مصب نهر في خليج العرب. هاذ الماء الطيني لونة مائل الى البني والبحر لونه ازرق فيوحي انه هناك حاجز بين مصب النهر والخليج العربي. والخليج العربي ايضا يحتوي على شهب مرجانية كما مذكور في القرءان. فيمكن ان محمد كان يذكر تلك المنطقة. والشعوب القديمة لل يكن لها فكرة واضحة عن البحار. البحر الاسود هو بحيرة ماء عذب ولكن الاغريق وغيرهم قالوا عنه بحر لضخامته. اعتقد انها مسألة تغير معاني في العصر الحديث او انها تعبير مجازي.
Thanks to Dr Simon Clark for proofreading my script; there's a link to his channel in the description! Also, I realised that I pronounced Reinga as /reɪ'iŋgə/ when it should be something close to /'/riˈæŋə/; apologies, in the moment I reverted to full-English-tourist mode and forgot!
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Ah, I've always had this problem with the name.
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@@GermaphobeMusic Did you know he's a doctor
I always thought that "two oceans meeting" sounded weird, since the earth really only has one ocean that we have just artificially divided with invisible borders.
Different oceans do have somewhat different water constituents right?
@@johnromanas They probably do, but I doubt it's divided the same way we've divided them with names.
It’s not quite artificially divided, yes it all mixes at some point but sometimes the criteria to assign an entity to a mass of water is geographical/physical (currents of water with different temperature, salinity, etc.), and other times it is more political (like with Mediterranean or Adriatic). There are definitely differences and lines that can be drawn between the oceans because while there is one world ocean, it is not the same across the globe
@@madabouthollyoaks411 You seem to know a lot about this. Do you know if they have different constituents on different tectonic plates or if it's more reliant on the currents?
Gamerdrengen took some classes in college haha I just really enjoy the topic. It’s a mixture of a lot of things, less to do with the tectonic plate they flow over than salinity, which influences density, wind, which is affected by the rotation of the earth on its axis and the continental plate it blows over, which in turn causes surface circulation, which acts with and against deep ocean circulation. Hope that makes sense, basically it’s a variety of factors that bleed into each other in a cycle, but you could say that the earth’s orbit on its axis and its orbit around the sun are some major influencers
You have crushed my dreams about a myth that I didn't know existed until 3 minutes ago.
Even if it's not two seas colliding it still looks amazing on a good day.
Good
witty, i want to be your friend
Poignant
In South Africa u can see the phenomena of two oceans meet
I never once in my life even considered the idea that the 2 oceans were visually different, or their meeting point would be visible.
You can see it though in Cape Town when indian and Atlantic but it’s not very dramatic
Actually, you can see 2 rivers crossing in Brazil, if you search, its just like the image he showed
You can actually see the difference if you view the ocean from something like google earth. How do you think birds can fly the distance over oceans without water?
@@ebenezermbizvo9845no, simply no. Did you even watch this video? 😂 Oceans are huge, they might have different characteristics at different regions, but the mixing is gradual and happens over an extremely large area. So you can't see anything really at those "hypothetical boundaries", it's not like right after the boundary suddenly it's a different ocean with waves propagating different side. Even thinking that exists is unbelievably stupid thing...
I like these short videos. Not dragging on to be 10 minutes or so. It just answer the question or tell something, simple and understandable.
But TH-cam is full of that garbage channels which just want to make money and not to inform people properly. That's why YT is slowly dying every year
@@amerwalker5655 Yes, so true. I even showed my appreciation by watching all the ads without skipping them.
@Abhinav Singh ???
Danyl Russo ???
@@danylrusso The longer someone watch the ads, the more that channel got revenue That's how we appreciate our fav creators, by not skipping ads and watch till the end.
You missed a perfect opportunity.
"When they say it's where two oceans collide, take it with a grain of salt. "
I dont get it
its cuz the ocean is salty.
Buhhh duhm tissss. . .
That one was boring.
Or a sverdrup of salt (water).
My brother used to live in the Dominican republic and we've gone to a couple different beach towns there, specifically one at juandolio, one near la Romana. These towns are maybe 30 miles apart, but one is on the Caribbean and one is on the Atlantic the water has different temperature, clarity salinity. You can tell in the way the water foams when the waves break, how high you float when you lay on your back. Very different beaches and but only one province over
That’s a good observation. Oceans don’t collide in a frothing inferno because the currents are oblivious to the lines drawn by humans. They do, however, have different characteristics, and mix in large areas. 30 miles should be more than sufficient to notice the characteristics of the Caribbean waters vs the Atlantic Ocean.
From the D.R., hope you liked our country and that you visit again soon :) Viva Quisqueya
I’m from the DR. Juan Dolio and La Romana are both on the Caribbean side of the country, dude.
Aaaaaand? It still doesn't look like that when they meet.
@@slovnicurling9808 you didn't get the point
When you getting out of the swamp biome
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Agonized Cat
Forgot my diamonds i have to go back
Not gonna build a base there
aight boys time to get some mushrooms
Why would you in the water?
Slime Farming
How did the oceans meet?They just waved...
That's a good dad joke ☑️ Happy Father's Day (if you're in Australia - it's today, September 6)
I sea what you did there.
Why is the ocean smelly?
Because the sea weed.
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I always figured there was really just one ocean. Humans only named the various areas. Much like the land as well.
I've always just assumed oceans are made up, there's one ocean since it's all connected. Names for different areas of water are just to make it easier for us to be a bit more... pacific.
I actually hear people.say "Be pacific." Seriously.
Some of them are well connected, some not. The Southern Ocean abuts the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific with no real boundary, but its opposite number, the Arctic Ocean is largely cut off - it is only joined to the Pacific by a small strait. The Pacific is largely cut off from the Atlantic, except for a section between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula...
I SEA whatcha saying!
Anon B Still its one technically a single body of water people divided so it would be easier to understand. Just like most things in nature.
@@anonb4632 the arctic isn't "only joined to the Pacific by a small strait" you have the whole Atlantic that flows into it as well and that section between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula is at least 1000 km wide
I live in Cape Town, it’s known for table mountain and the two oceans that collide, everything is called like the “two oceans aquarium “ or “two oceans restaurant”
Ive been there, that one is more definite than this one
I also thought this would be about Cape Town 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
That wee “but no” at 0:28 is pure Jonathan Frakes. We gotta get Tom a primetime TV spot.
"Sverdrup" - I'd never heard of that unit before!
Sounds like some kind of syrup that the Swedish Chef would use!
If you would pronounce it like svärdropp then it would mean ”swearing drop”
Can you use this word in Scrabble though? I want to know.
Sounds more Norwegian to me, or atleast like a really old Nordic word.
@@glass9793 true
Rose: Some people put on flour but i think that makes it too heavy, so i add a sverdrup of mollasses in it... my kids always liked it this way...
Dorothy: Tell me Rose, does any of your kid still have their own teeth?...
When I saw you on a bus in Auckland a couple of weeks back I knew we were in for at least one NZ video. Good video. :D
Ryan Nicholls Ah yes, bloody AT, if only they actually put in good bus bus routes
My exact feelings earlier this year when I went to Cap Spartel in Morocco, supposedly the border between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Maybe there’s a specific point where the plates meet and you could consider such distinctions from that point of view, but for the people selling stuff outside the museum or taking pictures in the signpost, it’s just local mythology.
Scientifically, because of the difference in the salinity and densities of these two water bodies, a surface tension developed between them that acts like a thin wall which prevents them from mixing. If you see the oceans from the airplane, it is visible.
How to ruin a location's tourist attraction in 3 mins
If you believe that you're dumb.
@@EmptyPeace What if we killed all the dumb people?
@@General12th There would be new dumb people made from smart people.
@@beforecuddlybunnylps841 What if we tried to solve every problem with murder? 🤔🤔🤔
NZ don't want tourist.
From Cape Reinga to the bluff, there's only one feed that's good enough...
It's Tux, keeps 'em full of life - fit as a fiddle, sharp as a knife.
Eazy-E is that you?
Wot
I genuinly don't understand...
Dog food
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Been watching quite a bit of Tom Scott recently, and as a Kiwi felt so excited to see New Zealand unexpectedly show up!
The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress. God has said:
He has set free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress. (Quran, 55:19-20)
But when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the existence of “a forbidding partition” with the barrier. God has said in the Quran:
He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition. (Quran, 25:53)
so then the quran is wrong since the video clearly shows that the oceans mix.
So Quran lies?
Absolutely love it when little old New Zealand is featured, almost anywhere on TH-cam 😍
Don't try to kid us all. You're happy when NZ features on a map of the world.
I’d love to see a new old zealand featured for once.
Kiwis are great, all three kinds
Bushy Raps “old New Zealand”
@@keemstarkreamstar7069 ?
When I went to the Cape of Good Hope near Cape Town, South Africa I saw exactly what those photos showed and you could see a linemof two different colors
Cape Reinga’s tourist based economy never fully recovered after this video posted.
The turbulent water behind you appears to be what us nautical types refer to as a "tidal race". You often get them off points of land where the tidal flow is disturbed and can also be made worse by wind, causing what is known as a "confused sea" where you get choppy waves travelling in different directions.
I found a depth map of this area a few years ago, as I was also trying to debunk the whole “two oceans meeting” thing. There’s a shallow area right where all the waves are breaking.
Most of the times I’m not sure if Tom uses green background, or not.
same tbh
Well I’ve just been to “Skagen” in Denmark - and you can clearly watch the difference between waves on the west side and east side when standing on the tip. They are much more violent on the west side. You can also clearly see the waves collide at the tip :)
He's saying that because some old book says it's over there, it's debunked. ... I don't think old chronicles are used for such records.
That would be really cool, but it might have been because the waves on one side of the peninsular had a different fetch length to the waves on the other. This would cause different wave sizes. I'm no geography expert, but it seems to me that this phenomenon wasn't due to an arbitrary line, rather different conditions which were directly caused by the fact that 'Skagen' is a peninsula. Hope this helps :)
Tom I adore your videos, your insistence on well researched material and always surprising nuggets of knowledge should owe you your own BBC documentary series.
In Denmark, at the tip of "Skagen" (the northern most region of the Jutland peninsula), it is said that the two seas, the Kattegat and Skagerrak, collide. If you look at pictures from high above the area, there are clearly two distinctly different coloured oceans, demarcated by the white line that the two colliding set of waves form, which makes me wonder what you'd say about that, and whether or not those are actually two seas colliding or not.
And the sea plus currents around Grenen, the utmost tip, can be quite rough at times, so it's better to go further out when it's windy. BTW, it's a really nice area to visit. Hope to sail there this summer. /Nabo fra Gøteborg
Oceans are literally just how humans decided them, it’s all one body of water
You've just never seen it with your own eyes
@@vernbaa yep glass bridge in bahamas
@@jamesross160 aren’t you special
@@philipfresco possibly, but not the type of special people refer to you as.
I mean... I can say the same thing about land....
I’m more amazed how you got shots without a bunch of tourists
There is software to do this merging many stills to show all the background and no crowd.
@@vernbaa When I went there it was so busy that there wouldn't have been a chance but maybe there is less tourism in certain parts of the year.
next thing you know Tom will tell us that megaladons are extinct, I WANNA BELIEVE IN MAGIC 😤😤😤
jk, 10/10 video, will still visit New Zealand
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I love how Tom is the only person to make a really unsatisfying answer be a really satisfying end to a video
I really enjoy every minutes of your videos . You always talk about interesting subjects that are often unknown by most of us .
I've seen this separation of water masses in many places in the oceans. Just different water masses. Colour, transparency, a little foam separating them. It's nice.
Really missed the opportunity to end with “the idea that two oceans meet here, just doesn’t hold any water.”
ah my long lost brother! what a nice pun.
ive been looking for years.
Came with Cape Point in Cape Town, "meeting of the Indian & Atlantic Oceans", but it's actually Cape Agulhas
> Cape Point is where the Atlantic- & Indian-Ocean meets.
> Cape Agulhas is the Southernmost part of Africa *(but not the spot where the 2 oceans meet)*
> Both Cape Agulhas & Cape Point are places that fall within the borders of the Western Cape Province.
Cape Point in South Africa is where the extremely cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean meet the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Cold Benguella Current off the west coast meeting the warm Mozambiquen Current off the east coast.
مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لا يَبْغِيَانِ
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I dont know arabic
But this thing is written in holy quran 1400 years ago
That is a good fact
What does your keyboard look like?
@@oskaveli662 you made me laugh
@@oskaveli662 Arabic keyboard go to settings and try it :)
Hello Arrival Alien
You should go to Skagen, Denmark. Two oceans really colliede there
Not two oceans. Hardly even two seas.
@@Tjalve70 i get your point - however it is much clearer to see than in this video
I've been there you actually can see the two meeting
@@matthewshepherd5390 in Skagen or the place from the video?
Skagen it was nearly 10 years ago now but I seem to remember getting some nice ice cream don't know if it was a proper shop or just an ice-cream-van
You can also see this in Skagen, Denmark. Here the Baltic sea and North sea meet.
Not the Baltic Sea, but kattegat and the North Sea***
Elming More exactly, Skagerrak and Kattegatt
Those are not seas they are adjacent seas. And actually there is no things as 2 seas since all the seas are connected and all to the ocean, and there's no thing as multiple oceans either since all the water is just a gigantic ocean except lakes, ponds etc.
Zapid according to you there is no such thing as countries since they are connected together in a continent which also isn’t a thing since Asia Africa and Europe are connected together except America and Australia
MightyGlory thats not the same thing dummy. Realisticaly, theres not but since humans fought over the land and made the ”borders” itself we have countries. Still not the same thing whatsoever
This video felt so much longer than it really was.
When something sounds too simple, I have instant alarm bells in my head going "The universe is _probably_ much more complicated".
In Denmark we actually have something like a place where ‘two oceans meets’. It’s the two oceans called Skagerak and Kattegat. It’s very fascinating
Nice
Denmark lies in only one ocean. Maybe you meant sea? But still I don't have to see it to know it will NOT look like that anyway.
@@slovnicurling9808 Denmark and ocean? Which one ?
@@slovnicurling9808 I Danish the word for ocean and sea is the same, hence your confusion
@@mudi228 sea and ocean arent the same word in danish
Growing up around Pittwater (where the Hawkesbury River system meets the ocean) it was so common to see exactly this.
The same is said about the Atlantic meeting the Indian Ocean at Cape Point, South Africa. Sending love to you Tom, from South Africa 🇿🇦
The biggest surprise here for me is that the Tasman Sea is not part of the Pacific
You want to really really boggle people's minds, figure out how large a volume of solar wind it would take to equate to a sverdrup.
Only Tom Scott travels half way around the world for a 3 minute TH-cam video
When you get the 1.14 update in minecraft
*cough cough* 1.13 *cough cough,*
@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated no
@Fmono • 39 years ago • Updated it does now
1.14 sucks i still play 1.7 at most, perhaps 1.3 even
@@bananya6020 Cool opinion, minority
The tip of Cape York, Ausrtalia, where the Arafura and Coral seas meet, produce some amazing currents whereby there appears to be a definite step of around 30cm in the water under certain conditions.
You need to travel to the bottom of western Australia where the India and southern oceans come together.
I've been there and seen the definite visible difference between the two.
صدقت ربي يا عظيم
(بينهما برزخ لا يبغيان)
صدقت يا عظيم يا مالك الملك
سبحانك ربي خلقت فأبدعت
اللهم صل و سلم على سيدنا و حبيبنا المصطفى عليه أفضل الصلاة و السلام
Hey Tom Scott, there's a place called Dhanushkodi ( also know as Ghost Town) in rameshwaram in TN. Here the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean and it's a picturesque to witness. The waters of Bay of Bengal are quite calm and those of Indian Ocean are very turbulent. I guess you should witness it.
You should visit Cape Agulhas in South Africa, where the warm Indian meets the cold Atlantic. Is it any wonder the nearby Cape Town is also known as "the Cape of Storms"?
wait isn't the south most point not named Cape the good hope?
sirBrouwer Nope, it's Cape Agulhas. Many believe it to be Cape Point though.
Cape of Good Hope is the old name for the Province that is now commonly known as the Western Cape.
> Cape Point is where the Atlantic- & Indian-Ocean meets.
> Cape Agulhas is the Southernmost part of Africa *(but not the spot where the 2 oceans meet)*
> Both Cape Agulhas & Cape Point are places that fall within the borders of the Western Cape Province.
@@MG-kw1kb that explains a lot.
Next Episode:
"Sushi king, at the very end of Dunhill road, is known for being the king of sushi. The truth though, is a little more complicated than that."
Those waves to me look like waves breaking on a reef or shoal, not confused currents. You can see the lighter water where the shallower water is.
Yes, the water is pressed up from the bottom in a swirl motion which goes opposite the waves. Then the water comes to the surface, you get a zero water velocity zone, which appear flat.
A single scull starts to swirl the stern then you row past a point, there the lake depth goes from 8-10 m to say 3-4 meters, and the wind is vertical or has an angle to the under water structure. The water looks nice and flat. But it is not.
New Zealand's tourism ministry might have sued him after this
you should go to cape town ,cape point is where you'll actually see where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean meet but don't meet .it is really fascinating. the reason they don't mix is because of the difference in water density , temperature and salinity of the glacial melt water making it difficult to mix . same with the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Next video is gonna be debunking this now 😉
I highly doubt it
I'm just waiting for the day i'm gonna casually meet Tom in my city in Italy (Cividale del Friuli) while he's finding something weird to talk about again
Why Giona Cantarutti loves on Cividale del Friuli
This was mentioned in the Quran 1400 years ago. Suratul Al Rahman. Alhamdulilah our Quran is really a miracle for us and Allah owns everything and everyone in this world. Allahuakbar
I was sailing in Denmark once and was at the tip of Denmark where the baltic and north sea (idk what its called in english) meet. The waves of both collieded with each other, resulting in high splashes :D also they had different colors
We called them the Baltic and North Seas in English. (Unless we learn our geography from the board game Diplomacy, in which case we consider Skagerrak separate from either sea.) The only Bavarian Sea that we know as the Chiemsee, a landlocked lake.
@@tobybartels8426 xD OMFG I messed up bavarian and baltic xD
@@gzey1337 : I thought that you might have, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions, because names can be weird. A Pole and a Spaniard means completely different things by Galicia, for example.
flies to NZ for a 3 minute video. congrats on living the dream
The northernmost tip of Denmark where Kattegatt and Skagerrak meet has exactly that pattern. Two wavesystems clashing into each other. There you can see exactly how waves from the two watersystems meet and collide from two different directions. I recommend a visit to Skagen!!
Different oceans are just boundaries arbitrarily drawn by humans through associations with land masses, without any account for the ocean current or mixing
I agree. If we take the case of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meeting, It is only at Cape Horn where the waters of the Pacific Ocean meet the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and nowhere else. It is misleading to present a video showing a dark blue and light blue waters meeting with a defined line separating the two as the waters of Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean meeting at a certain point.
This is a very interesting video. I say this because I've always heard that the fishing in Morocco is really good because the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean. Is this yet another myth? Could whatever is "good" about the fishing be the result of something else?
New Zealand would still be an amazing place to visit
+The Abyss *New Zealand just watch out 4 terrorist(s) though; U no what they can do...*
@@Inn1 the terrorist was Australian.
Maybe not Oceans, but rivers certainly do that. Although they do eventually mix.
For example, the Green river & the Colorado river run side by side, in the same channel, for possibly over a mile. I literally rode down the center of the river with my left foot in the much cooler, clearer Green river with my right in the Colorado which was much warmer and filled with sediment.
Very cool.
The same thing is happening at the very tip of Denmark. This has also received the same title “where two oceans collide”. It does have some truth in the case of Denmark, because the line where the Kattegat waters meets Skagerrak is the same place where the waves collide.
Where two oceans meet is just an imaginary line created by humans. It's really all one big ocean.
Actually the statement that different bodies of water can meet is in fact correct. And the differences can be very obvious when currents come from different regions temperatures and or turbidity. This can happen a long way from land.
Oh my god! it's the guy who went to the Arctic for 3 weeks!! I finally found your channel
In South Africa, you really CAN tell the difference between the Atlantic ocean on the west coast and the Indian ocean on the east. The Indian ocean is warmer and you can swim without a wetsuit, the Atlantic... freezing cold. Even during summer.
2:28 I don't know about the direction of that "Tokyo" sign...
It should be pointing closer to the "Equator" (North) rather than to "Sydney" (West).
The sign appears to be off by about 20-30 degrees..
Fun fact. The Islamic religious book (Koran), from around 1400 years ago, told of this phenomenon superficially.
Amazing isn't it
So basically Quran just got debunked
@@masontyson : how's so ?
@@masontyson Clarification. The Koran only mentions existence. The actual scientific explanation is not there. (Like the Koran also tells of the developmental stages of the embryo, but not in the way we know it today.)
mason tyson the quran doesn’t mention the tasman sea, so this video does not address it
This had been said by prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago and some of them don't believe him. We see it noe did we believe him?
Well you guys should visit the southern most point of India at Rameshwaram. You can see three oceans meeting together. Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. All three different colours and can clearly them with distinct lines.
makes sense, two types of sediment water and one ocean, might not be as clear as the gulf of alaska due to the sheer distance, once again though it is because of rivers and not oceans.
@@alexandergalitevstudentfvh8696indians genuinely don't understand how water works. It's not their fault, their government tells them rivers are literally magic
It's mention in the Qur'an where two different waters meets together but dnt mixed ❤️
Did you see the video its saying that not true.
Assalamu alaikum Ahlan ahlan brother!! JazakAllaahu Khairan
Finally some explanation without some arabic music.
When two seas (or sea and ocean) meet there’s a barrier, but not two oceans
I cant decide if this are a joke or a flat earth theory
@@moussetache it’s a fact, when a sea and ocean meet , or two different waters from different places meet , there forms a barrier
@@omarbataineh3799 yes i know that. But what kind of barrier?
@@moussetache Oceanographers, in the wake of the scientific progress in this age, have discovered the barrier between two seas. They have found that a barrier separates two neighboring seas. The barrier moves between them ,
Because of this barrier, the two neighboring seas mingle so slowly that the amount of water that passes from one sea to the other acquires the characteristics of the other sea while crossing the barrier which overturns the waters crossing from one sea to the other, keeping each sea with its own characteristics
So there’s a barrier that can be seen but it’s not actually a wall, it’s just the separation of different characteristics
@@moussetache the same kind u have between water and oil
Saw the thumbnail, and was disappointed that you weren't filming at Two Ocean Pass ;)
(Seriously though, it's tough to get out there, and would probably be even tougher carrying camera equipment. It's an isolated spot southeast of Yellowstone NP, with a little marshy area that drains into the Atlantic via the Yellowstone River, and into the Pacific via the Snake. Isa Lake inside the park does the same thing.)
Tom Scott just obliterated the tourist income from Cape Reinga
Since, according the the IHO the Tasman SEA is a body of water in the Pacific OCEAN, there is no oceanic meeting in NZ. The Indian and Pacific meet at the bottom point of Tasmania....
Okay, his point still stands though.
@@javasiege Love the video, very interesting. However, as one myth is debunked, another is born in the ambiguity of the wording from 2:13 - "The Tasman Sea meets the Pacific at North Cape." The IHO has determined that the Tasman Sea is a body of water that belongs to the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, it cannot "meet" that ocean at North Cape. The Tasman Sea ends/begins at North Cape, not Cape Reinga - true. The Tasman Sea meets the Pacific Ocean at North Cape - not true. The only ocean that the Tasman Sea meets is the Indian Ocean, at South East Cape in Tasmania.
مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيٰنِۙ
அவனே, இரண்டு கடல்களையும் ஒன்றோடொன்று சந்திக்கச் செய்தான்.
(அல்குர்ஆன் : 55:19)
بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيٰنِ
(ஆயினும்) அவற்றிடையே ஒரு தடுப்பும் இருக்கிறது; அதை அவை மீறமாட்டா.
(அல்குர்ஆன் : 55:20)
فَبِاَىِّ اٰلَاۤءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ
ஆகவே, நீங்கள் இரு சாராரும் உங்கள் (இரு சாராருடைய) இறைவனின் அருட்கொடைகளில் எதைப் பொய்யாக்குவீர்கள்?
(அல்குர்ஆன் : 55:21)
Ayub Khan - English pls, I know it's a verse from the quran
@@m4lik659 Its tamil. Indians and Sri Lankans mainly speak ot.
@@m4lik659 the verse says about water which doesnt mix
@@blackflagsofpakistantheeas9109 did you put oil in it or something?
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Ah... intelligent critical thinking with some science we need more of this these days
Good luck getting that. Too many prefer to be spoon fed whatever meets their preconceived ideas. Soundbites have replaced nuanced understanding.
E3ECO Explain how that applies in the context of this video.
@@kevinnelson6070 if you have to ask then you wouldn't understand the answer... look up scientific principle
@@sparramore If you look closely, you would see that the reply was not addressed to you.
@@E3ECO Except for you, of course. You hate being spoonfed preconceived ideas!
I was on a cruise ship and saw this once. Very weird the way the ocean went from blue to brownish-greenish
Did the two oceans “wave” to each other?
I’m surprised the oceans haven’t all mixed yet. 🙃
What do u mean by yet
Do you are have stupid
bro just destroyed that entire towns tourism industry in a single video.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
It is more visible offshore, entrance of the Red Sea, Cape Finistère or the Persian Gulf. It is not fixed, needs specific weather to be seen etc. The difference between water masses is more distinct deeper down, where it affects visibility.
Go to Skagen in Denmark and you can see where the Kattegat meets the Skaggerak. there are clear signs. Brian Oosterbeek Nededrland
Was about to come and say that too. The line is really clear.
Allah mentioned this in the Quran in chapter 55 or surah AR Rahmaan
In Western Australia we have the Indian Ocean meeting the Southern Ocean at Augusta.
Why didn’t you go to Kanyakumari? It’s the tip of the indian peninsula where not 2 but *3* oceans meet: The Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal.
Sure but we know that. But the question is does it look like 3 oceans meet?
@@sarangshibu it sure doesn't like its the same thing humans just divided those
@@sarangshibu not really, but if you took a picture of each sea from the west, south and east of Kanyakumari, you’d see the waters are coloured different
I haven't watched this yet but isn't it just something we define as separate oceans?
And whether you believe it or no but allah mentioned the two seas 1400 years ago in quran as he says
Surah Ar-Rahman, Chapter 55, verses 19-20:
"He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between them which they do not overstep
Subhanallah
so then the quran is wrong since the video clearly shows that the oceans mix.
Ah so Quran lies?
And guess what tom? This is explained in detail in the Quran 1400 years ago. Two Oceans Meet But Do Not Mix Written in the holy Quran more than 1.400 years ago (Surat Ar-Rahman 55:19 , 55:20).
1400 years ago in the desert :)
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it is not the eyes that are blind but the hearts.
Shaat-al-arab which is rich in sediment pours sediment rich freshwater over the Persian gulf. Nothing akin to two seas. The Persian gulf also has coral reefs as mentioned. as tom said in the beginning regarding some of those.
@@thedarksword3495 I don’t understand
@@صالحالعمرو-ز6ن I will explain in arabic. شط العرب يحتوي على الكثير من الرواسب والطين لدرجة انه كل سنة الحكومة العرافية تزيل جزر طينية من ساحل البصرة. بالفيديو قال توم سكوتت انه هناك بعض المناطق اللي يقولون عليها الناس محيطين أو بحرين يلتقيان بينما ما هي الا مصب نهر في خليج العرب. هاذ الماء الطيني لونة مائل الى البني والبحر لونه ازرق فيوحي انه هناك حاجز بين مصب النهر والخليج العربي. والخليج العربي ايضا يحتوي على شهب مرجانية كما مذكور في القرءان. فيمكن ان محمد كان يذكر تلك المنطقة. والشعوب القديمة لل يكن لها فكرة واضحة عن البحار. البحر الاسود هو بحيرة ماء عذب ولكن الاغريق وغيرهم قالوا عنه بحر لضخامته. اعتقد انها مسألة تغير معاني في العصر الحديث او انها تعبير مجازي.
Been there. There's another lighthouse at the other end at Bluff, plus a large chain that stops Stewart Island from floating off.
I believe that photo is from where the Rio Solimões encounters the Rio Amazonas, in Brazil. Lots of true photos from there
Where two oceans collide is just a simple explanation for simple minds.
What would we do without Tom going to the ends of the earth to dispel ridiculous myths. Great stuff! Thanks!