“...literally just sitting there like a giant bath,” I told the government funding committee during our presentation on Friday.
Our research team spent nine months measuring the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, and we discovered that it has simply run out of weather. The water is entirely flat across the hemisphere. It has no plans to generate a breeze.
The Pacific Ocean is currently throwing a relentless string of hurricanes at the coast because it is doing the work of two oceans. We dragged a heavy steel net across the Atlantic equator to verify our data. The sea did not even push back against the ship.
A normal ocean builds seasonal storms using warm air and the rotation of the earth. The Atlantic is refusing to participate in this basic cycle. We dropped nine highly sensitive buoys off the coast of Florida to find a current. They recorded a single mild ripple before we hauled them back onto the deck.
