Tom_in_CA
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"Where the tides meet" would be an excellent description for "Oak Island"!
Oak Island is located where the North Stream from the Labrador Current meets up with the Southern Gulf Stream, then into the North Atlantic Current.
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For an Oak Island Pirate...It would be a Quick Hop on the Tube Express, back to...Jolly Ole England!
Well that does it !! Who can argue with Ocean currents that yesteryear ships followed ? If that brought them skirting by the Oak Island area, then what more proof do we need of "certain treasure" buried there ! Let's go ! Get your shovels !
Hmmm, wait a moment.... if simply having ocean currents bring passing ships by means "treasure", then figure this: The coast of CA was skirted by Manila Galleons for 250 yrs. Although their return destination was Mexico, yet ... the currents that brought them back across the Pacific would spot the west coast somewhere between San Francisco area to the Channel Island (Los Angeles) area. And from there, they'd turn south for the final leg to Mexico. Thus with this reasoning, I ought to start digging around on the coast here, eh ? Sure to be a treasure room here too , eh ?
And my studies of these ocean currents (if the atlantic is anything like the pacific), is that there is no one *exact* landfall spot (eg.: an exact point along the coast) that they necessarily always got to land at. Like in CA for example, that "sighting of land" could be anywhere for hundreds of miles. It would all depend on the time of year, as the storm track (spinning of the weather pressures) shifts north and south with the seasons. Also, the ships were not *totally* at the mercy of the currents anyhow, if their ultimate destination was further south or further north, they simply set their sails and rudder, and could go at an angle to whatever the winds and currents were dictating.
So don't think for a minute that they necessarily departed or arrived at exact locations. As for "departure" locations (because I see the direction of the arrows on your map), the only way I'd believe they distinctly left our coast heading east to Europe, was if there was some sort of port or reason to be ashore at any one particular place. Example, those ships leaving Manila , were indeed leaving from a specific point. But that was a harbor filled with world trading ships! Of course! Then they went northwards towards Japan, and turned west from there. And the point at which they turned "west" (along side of Japan) was not any exact spot. Despite what a map like yours might show, that is just generalized showing the approx. currents.
Sorry.