Classics fantasy – 10

– But what mechanical barriers can be among the ocean? – Viviana asked a new question. – There are neither islands, nor banks.

– And underwater mountains? You forgot about them? Imagine that a little to the east under water there is a range which crosses Gulf Stream. Present further that in this range there is a narrow pass – the gorge directed by the exit to the Island which plays at hide-and-seek with us. Gulf Stream is the real river which waters rush with a speed of two and a half meters per second. All this mass of quickly current water presses a mountain range, finds only one narrow pass and directs in it. Here to you and internal current of the Sargasso Sea.

– And it, probably, is! Otherwise there would be no Island also! – Simpkins responded.

– Yes, perhaps, Simpkins’s council is quite good – the captain agreed. – Well, we will try “to break a wheel and the screw” as you speak.