stackyFACTSThe massive, invisible conveyor belt of water moving around our planet is agonizingly slow. A single drop of water sinking in the frigid North Atlantic will slowly drift along the deepest parts of the global sea floor, taking a full millennium to finally surface again in the Pacific.
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