First broadcast on July 17, 2025 Peter Barakan visits the region of Tosa, famous for the mighty Kuroshio Current and bonito ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

They used both modern and Paleolithic oceanographic models to approximate the flow of the Kuroshio, varying the strength of the current between ebbs and peaks.

The simulation revealed that skillful boat-making and navigation could overcome the Kuroshio Current even with ancient tools.

A dugout canoe with four men and one woman paddling is pictured during a crossing across a region of the East China Sea from near Ushibi, Taiwan to Yonaguni Island, traversing the Kuroshio current ...

A dugout canoe with four men and one woman paddling is pictured during a crossing across a region of the East China Sea from near Ushibi, Taiwan to Yonaguni Island, traversing the Kuroshio current ...

While the distance of 140 miles isn’t mighty when compared to some of the voyages the Polynesians are known to have made, it ...

And the Kuroshio current, comparable in strength to the Gulf Stream off Mexico, presented a particular challenge.

The voyage was aimed at examining a hypothesis that human beings crossed the 110-kilometer-wide strait, where the strong Kuroshio Current intervenes, around 30,000 years ago.

A new study reveals that global ocean analysis products can effectively replace expensive in-situ sound speed measurements for precise seafloor positioning.

Neogene History of the Kuroshio Current Extension and Planktic Foraminifera Evolutionary Implications. PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst.

And the Kuroshio current, comparable in strength to the Gulf Stream off Mexico, presented a particular challenge.