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Oyashio Current — The Oyashio Current colliding with the Kuroshio Current near Hokkaido. When two currents collide, they create eddies. Phytoplankton growing in the surface waters become concentrated along the boundaries of these eddies, tracing out the motions of … Wikipedia
Oyashio Current — /oy euh shee oh/; Japn. /aw yah shee aw/, n. a cold ocean current flowing SW from the Bering Sea, E of the Kurile Islands, along the E coast of Japan where it meets the Japan Current. Also called Okhotsk Current … Useful english dictionary
Oyashio — Oyashio, may refer to: Oyashio Current, an ocean current One of the following Japanese warships: Oyashio, a Kagero class destroyer commissioned in 1940 JDS Oyashio (SS 511), a submarine commissioned in 1960 JDS Oyashio (SS 590), an Oyashio class… … Wikipedia
Oyashio class submarine — The SS590 Oyashio Class overview Name: Oyashio (おやしお, Cold Current) Builders … Wikipedia
Current ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force — JDS Hyūga (DDH 181) … Wikipedia
Oyashio — (Japanese Father Current) cold Okhotsk Current … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
Japanese submarine Oyashio (SS-511) — Following the loan of the Gato class submarine USS Mingo as an underwater target in 1955, the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force proposed the construction of three new classes of submarine, of 250, 500 and 1000 tons. In the end only the latter was … Wikipedia
North Pacific Current — The North Pacific Current. The North Pacific Current (sometimes referred to as the North Pacific Drift) is a slow warm water current that flows west to east between 40 and 50 degrees north in the Pacific Ocean. The current forms the southern part … Wikipedia
Kamchatka Current — The Kamchatka Current is a cold water current flowing south westward from the Bering Strait, along the Siberian Pacific coast and the Kamchatka Peninsula. A portion of this current then becomes the Oyashio Current while the remainder joins the… … Wikipedia
Okhotsk Current. — See Oyashio Current. * * * … Universalium
