An ocean current that flows through deep ocean waters, typically at great depths below the surface.
From Greek 'bathos' (depth) + English 'current'. This oceanographic term became standard in 20th-century marine science literature.
Deep ocean currents like the thermohaline circulation move so slowly (about 1 cm per second) that a water molecule takes 1,000 years to travel from the North Atlantic to the Pacific!
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