Excerpt from Expendable Bathythermograph Observations From the Nmfs/Marad Ship of Opportunity Program for 1973Loop Current. - The Loop Current showed up on transects conducted in January, February, April, August, October, and November (figs. 1 The downward slope (southward) of the isotherms, such as between stations 16 and 17 in Figure 1 for January, indicated the approximate position of the Loop Current as it passed from the Yucatan Channel into the Gulf of Mexico. About a month later the Loop Current was transected again near the Yucatan Channel as shown by the slope of the isotherms between stations 7 and 8 in Figure 2.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.