Atlantic Ocean Overview

The Atlantic Ocean is perhaps the greatest of the world's seven seas. Scenic beaches found in Aruba, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, Nantucket, Cape Cod, The Jersey Shore and Florida Keys, to name a few, are some of the finest tourist destinations in the world.

 

Hotel chains such as Marriott, Westin, and Hilton routinely build structures that line Atlantic shores. The Atlantic Ocean routinely invites it's guest's to view, swim, relax, meet and or simply admire it's sparkling waters. Today a room with an ocean view of the Atlantic is much desired.

Cruise lines such as Holland America, Norwegian, Carinval, Disney, Royal Carribian, Princess regularly traverse the sea paths of this great waterway.

Bounded on the west by North and South America, the prominent underwater feature of the second largest ocean in the world is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; a submarine mountain range extending from Iceland in the north reaching the maximum width of nearly 1,600 kilometers. The Puerto Trench located in the North Atlantic is the deepest of all the several trenches that are present and found on the ocean floor of the Atlantic.

Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest of all the five oceans in the world but the salinity of the surface waters changes depending on the latitude and of course the season. This means that you should never expect that uniform salinity will occur among all areas of this ocean. This goes the same way with the temperatures of the water surface, which is greatly influenced by season, latitude, and prevailing current systems.

Atlantic Ocean also plays an important role in the development in terms of economy of all the countries and communities surrounding it primarily providing transatlantic communication and transportation pathways. The Atlantic Ocean has an abundance of fishing grounds wherein major species of cod, herring, mackerel, and hake are often caught especially in the Iceland waters and the Irish Sea. One of the reasons why Atlantic fishing is one of the most sought-after exploration of a fishing enthusiast.