The continuation of the Mediterranean Current through the Yucatan Strait and on into the Gulf of Mexico It is dynamically a western boundary current that separates from the shelf north of the Yucatan Strait, becomes unstable, and intermittently sheds anticyclonic eddies or rings into the Gulf of Mexico The speed of the current has been estimated to be 1 0 m/s in Yucatan Strait, falling off to 0 4 m/s at 1000 m depth A highly irregular southward flowing undercurrent has also been found in the 200 m above the sill depth See Maul and Vukovich (1993)
A current setting clockwise in the Gulf of Mexico It enters through the Yucatan Channel from the Caribbean Sea and leaves through the Straits of Florida