The swirling motion of eddies in the ocean cause nutrients that are normally found in colder, deeper waters to come to the surface.
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Eddies
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East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.
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She had to pass between these boiling eddies to reach the witches' domain, and for a long way the only path led over warm bubbling mud.
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The rapids are fast and continuous, with very few eddies or calm spots.
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