Editing Cromwell Current (section)

==Discovery==
In 1951 researchers on board a Fish and Fish and Wildlife Service fisheries research vessel were engaged in exploratory [[longline fishing]] when they noticed that the gear deep under water drifted eastwards. This was considered unusual because the surface currents of the Pacific Ocean flow westwards at the equator, following the direction of the winds. In 1952 Townsend Cromwell led a research party to investigate how the currents of the ocean varied as a function of depth. They discovered a fast-flowing current that flowed eastwards in the deep surface layers.