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Meg Duff

Do the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean mix?

Where the two oceans meet as seen from a boat.

A handful of videos on YouTube and TikTok have been racking up likes by showing a strange line in the ocean, with dark water on one side and light water on the other. 

Lines like this often appear where rivers or glaciers feed the ocean. But these popular videos also claim that these lines show a boundary between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, and then use this as "evidence" to claim that the two oceans do not mix. 

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