What If the Entire Atlantic Ocean Started Spinning?

What If the Entire Atlantic Ocean Started Spinning? What would happen if the Atlantic Ocean turned into one enormous whirlpool? How fast could the water move, and what would happen to the coastlines around it? The strange part is that the Atlantic already does spin. Huge ocean gyres circulate water across thousands of kilometres, while the Gulf Stream carries an enormous amount of warm water toward Europe. But what happens if we speed the whole thing up? In this episode of What If Stickman, we turn the Atlantic into a giant rotating ocean and increase the speed from its normal currents to one full rotation per week, then eventually one rotation every single day. At those speeds, water could race around the Atlantic at hundreds of miles per hour, pile up against coastlines, devastate coastal cities, generate enormous amounts of energy and even slightly affect the rotation of Earth itself. Could ships survive inside a spinning Atlantic? Would the middle of the ocean actually feel calm? How high could the water pile up against the coast? And what happens when an entire ocean finally stops spinning? Watch until the end to find out. CHAPTERS 00:00 What If the Atlantic Ocean Started Spinning? 00:23 The Atlantic Already Spins 00:41 The Gulf Stream 01:14 The Sargasso Sea 01:35 Speeding Up the Atlantic 01:48 One Rotation Per Week 02:24 What Happens to the Coastlines? 02:45 Shipping Inside a Spinning Ocean 02:56 Why Fish Might Not Notice 03:20 One Rotation Per Day 03:31 The Ocean Starts Piling Up 04:25 How Much Energy Is in the Spinning Atlantic? 04:40 The Atlantic Starts Heating Up 05:14 Sending Stickman Into the Whirlpool 05:34 Stickman Crosses the Atlantic 05:55 What Happens When the Spin Stops? 06:15 Could It Change the Length of a Day? 06:36 The Pacific Is Watching 06:45 So What Actually Happens? 💬 This episode came from a viewer suggestion by Hidaja. Got an impossible question you want us to test next? Leave it in the comments. Your idea might become a future What If Stickman video. 👍 If you enjoy extreme weather, ocean science, giant whirlpools and impossible What If experiments, consider subscribing. 🔔 More What If Stickman videos are coming. #whirlpool #whatif #ocean #whatifstickman #hurricane