"The Pacific coast current keeps the water cool, " Baker explains.
Carnival has not requested assistance from the Coast Guard, which has no jurisdiction in the ship's current location, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios told CNN.
Normally, the coast of Peru is washed by the Humboldt current, which carries cool waters from Antarctica almost as far north as the equator.
The current best selling book in Ivory Coast is a political critique of the founding President, Felix Houphouet Boigny, who ruled from independence until his death in 1993.
On its current track, Hurricane Earl could approach the coast of North Carolina by late tonight or early Friday morning.
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The silver lining in these storm clouds is modest: the rainfall replenishes the underground aquifers on which some farmers rely, and the warmer current brings shrimp and lobsters to Peru's coast and provides ideal growing conditions for scallops.
In the short run, there appears to be little risk the Loop Current will carry the oil around South Florida and up the East Coast, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials said.
Ivory Coast's UN ambassador, Youssoufou Bamba, told the UN Security Council that he thought the current level of security was good.
They have since been pushed into the Sea of Japan by a branch of the warm Kuroshio current that is running much closer to land than usual, and have spread up Japan's west coast and even through the Tsugaru strait between Japan's main island, Honshu, and northern Hokkaido into the Pacific Ocean.
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