Courtesy of Underwater probes detect ‘sea cyclones’ off coast of Africa, Science Magazine.
The Agulhas Current off the southern coast of Africa is one of the world’s fastest moving ocean flows and likely responsible for enormous rogue waves that sink supertankers without a trace…read the rest of a fascinating article here.
The courses of the warm Agulhas current (red in the diagram on left) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold Benguela current (blue) along the west coast. The Agulhas Current is formed by the confluence of the warm Mozambique and East Madagascar Currents, which meet southwest of Madagascar.