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Take a look at the organisms I met on the way!

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All that time spent underwater, I gain nutrients! When I reached the surface, organisms like this seaweed utilize the nutrients I carried!

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Going from Deep Current to Surface Current

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Going from Deep Current to Surface Current

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When I tell you I was happy, I was BEAMING! I gained a lot of nutrients being in the deep part of the ocean, but I'm more of a sunlight molecule. I love the sun, and I missed it for so many years. As I was making my way to the surface, I felt warmer, more spread out and less compact.

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Well, we have reached our destination. Greenland. I will say being underwater for so long made me see things I never saw again. This was an amazing trip, and this journal was so much fun to put together!

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Going from Surface Current to Deep Current

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Going from Surface Current to Deep Current

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The transition was not super smooth. As soon as the journey began, I began to sink. The water was so cold, and I began to feel more compact. This movement creates a current, and I'll be honest, I'm happy to be part of a current!

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While traveling, I saw this beautiful Blue Tang off as I was returning to Greenland in the North Atlantic. It was gorgeous, vibrant blue!

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Make sure you have your temperature control suit! The Earth is facing changes in climate, and it has interrupted the Great Ocean Conveyor journey. One time when arrived to Antarctica, it was somehow warm because of melting sea ice. So, in order to keep sticking it out through the journey, make sure to bring your temperature control suit!

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This is the submarine that I, Hydro, travelled in on this 1000 year expedition.

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Look at the fish I spotted as I made my way back to Greenland! The surface currents of the Atlantic Ocean provides life for these huge and heavy tuna!

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Ice Caps! What an interesting land form to see!

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Ice Caps! What an interesting land form to see!

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Check out this spectacular image of the Antarctic Ice Caps! You don't get to see this everyday, and I find it amazing how these large chunks of ice are.

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I will tell you it felt AWESOME to travel in warm currents rather than cold currents like we did in the start of this journey. At this point, all the nutrients I gained underwater have been depleted to provide nutrients for organisms living in the surface layers.

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We are now at the point in this journey where I'm no longer traveling in the deep, cold, Atlantic waters but now the traveling with the surface currents. I'm now wind-driven, not driven by changes in the water density!

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I was still in deep water by the time I reached the shoreline of Australia. However, being underwater so long I collected nutrients from decayed organisms and plants. It's still cold, and I still move at a slow rate.

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Oh no! We encountered melting sea ice! This melting sea ice added fresh water to the Global Conveyor process. I started to rise towards the surface, because that melting sea ice increases the ocean's temperature, making water molecules like me much less dense. The takeaway from this melting sea ice is that it could mess up the natural ocean's circulation! In addition, since I was warmer, I sped up! The consequences of climate change which causes sea ice to melt is that the nutrients I carry wouldn't be able to reach the surface layer organisms, and those organisms would die.

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📍 In the Middle of the Pacific Ocean (Near Equator)

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📍 In the Middle of the Pacific Ocean (Near Equator)

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I started to feel a lot warmer. I found myself rising to the surface, in a process called uprising. I felt less salty, and warmer. That meant I was less dense.

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Wow after a few hundred years of traveling SUPER slowly in the deep, cold, Atlantic Ocean, I finally reached the coastline of South America. The reason why I was traveling at a slow speed was because of my temperature, being in such a deep place in the ocean and not seeing the sun in years, I'm traveling slowly. We are in the North Atlantic Deep Water.

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Finally I reached Antarctica, the opposite side of the Earth! The water here is still cold, and I become more salty, cold and dense. There are no continents really, so I can flow freely here! I was still sinking but this was the location where I felt like I was being "recharged".

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Hello Earth friends! My name is Hydro and I'm a water molecule traveling through the Great Ocean Conveyor. I am going to be telling you about my 1,000 year trip along the oceans of Planet Earth.

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This is where the long journey begins. The water was FREEZING here. Because I'm so cold, I became much more dense and start sinking to the bottom of the ocean. For the next hundreds of years, I was slowly traveling with the current to reach our next location. The water did feel more saltier, and that as because of the abundance of sea ice formations. I sank to the thermocline layer of the ocean.