Benguela Current

Being pushed in the stern by the Benguela Current after sailing out of Cape Town, we now sail on a northwesterly course, straight to Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, which is, after the Pacific Ocean, the second largest ocean in the world. The Pacific Ocean is 64 million square miles and the Atlantic Ocean 31.8 million square miles. Due to the theory of continental drift, it is believed that the Atlantic Ocean is widening an inch every year while the Pacific Ocean is shrinking. The Atlantic Ocean takes its name either from the lost kingdom of Atlantis or, more probably from the Atlas Mountains in Northwest Africa, which the ancients believed overlooked the entire ocean.