Sea level, if undisturbed by currents and weather, would assume a surface equal to the geoid.
Rescue teams found passengers floating under the pilings, swept there by strong currents.
Focusing by currents - Waves from one current are driven into an opposing current.
Broken limbs, dead animals, whole trees bobbed and spun around, caught by conflicting currents.
Almost imperceptibly several vessels were drifting in the direction of the island, as if drawn there by lazy currents.
They are either dashed against rocks or swept out by currents too strong to fight.
Here the water was undisturbed by currents, fish, sound or light.
In a rictus tight as rock, my body was seized and borne along by swift currents.
Islands drifted where they would, carried by sluggish currents.
Soon her creations will be self-sustaining, driven by currents in the Earth's own dynamo.