The East Australian Current (or EAC for short) is a boundary current from the South Equatorial Current which crosses the Coral Sea and reaches the eastern coast of Australia. It is notably featured in the 2003 Disney•Pixar animated film Finding Nemo and the subsequent sequel Finding Dory. In...

In the 2003 Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, the EAC is portrayed as a superhighway that fish and sea turtles use to travel down the east coast of Australia.

2016年6月1日 · In reality, the current is massive, measuring 62 miles wide and nearly a mile deep. In other words, it could fit way more than a few turtles swimming next to each other. The "exits" as seen in...

In Finding Nemo, Marlin awakens on the back of sea turtle Crush and learns they're riding the East Australian Current.

Finding Nemo is a 2003 American animated comedy-drama adventure film [2] produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Andrew Stanton , co-directed by Lee Unkrich , and produced by Graham Walters, from a screenplay written by Stanton, Bob Peterson , and David Reynolds , based on a story by Stanton.

2015年1月19日 · The current transports a staggering 30 million cubic metres of water southward each second at speeds of up to seven kilometres per hour. The current can be up to 100 kilometres wide and 1.5 ...

2019年6月12日 · INSIDER took a look at some of the real-life facts the movie gets right. Marlin and Nemo are both clownfish. They each have three white stripes outlined in black and look like carbon copies of...

Made famous in the animated film, Finding Nemo, the East Australian Current (EAC) runs north to south from the top end of the Great Barrier Reef to the southern reaches of Tasmania. A staggering 100 kilometres wide and running over 500 metres into the dark depths of the ocean, the EAC spans the length of the east coast of Australia measuring ...

The East Australian Current is where Marlin and Dory meet Crush, Squirt, and other sea turtles on their way to find Nemo. Some of the animals that travel within the current include sea turtles, tunas, groupers, swordfish, lobsters, dolphins, and albatrosses (above the water).

2012年4月20日 · Today a team of CSIRO oceanographers has set off from Brisbane on a boat to find out more about the current and the impacts of climate change on marine life along the east coast including Tasmania. The team will send five moorings down 4,000 metres where their scientific instruments will measure temperature, salinity and current.