I have claimed nothing about nonbreaking waves and you already put all that up to debunk the Flood back when you didn't have a clue I couldn't have been talking about nonbreaking waves.
Great -- I will hold you to this: no non-breaking waves involved in the magic of flood geology.
However, ocean water DOES move stuff. Why does all that junk end up on those little islands? Why do bottles with messages in them finally make land across the world? ...
You mean the floating stuff that gets blown by winds? Curiously no rocks, pebbles, or sand are deposited on those little islands from the mainlands or even from other little islands.
Below the turbulent layer of breaking waves the water behaves the same as below non-breaking waves. The breaking wave turbulent layer can result in temporary currents at the surface as they are blown downwind.
... The ocean also has layers in it, apparently at different temperatures, and it has currents as well as waves. ...
Indeed there are ocean currents. The Gulf Stream is well known for running up the east coast and then east below Greenland to get to England. But without continents this current would not exist. Ocean currents like this also do not transport rocks, pebbles and sand for deposition in far places. People have known about these currents since the dawn of navigation, Faith. The
average speed is 4 mph -- an easy walking pace.
There are also deep ocean currents, and they too are impacted by the geology of the ocean bottom. They also do not move fast enough to transport rocks, pebbles, sand and dense materials for deposition in far places.
The relative velocities of water in a section across these currents is called a velocity ofile, with speed plotted against distance. It looks something like this:
... similar to the velocity profile across a river channel, except here the edge of the "channel" is tranquil water.
The flow is laminar (no turbulence) and increases from the outer boundary to the center, so the relative velocity compared to adjacent water is very slow, so they are not transport currents, they are not capable of carrying rocks, pebbles and sands for deposition in far places. The speed of these currents is very slow, as we can know from the age of the water at upwelling points (where it comes back to the surface when it runs into continents) -- some of the water has been away from the surface for over 1000 years. Upwelling points do not deposit silts.
Water currents from river deltas are faster, and the materials carried by the rivers gets deposited as the water spreads out and slows down. The deltas are built up bt the deposition of sediments carried by the river, and you can observe the limits to distance for different size particles in the deltas. There is no transport and deposition rocks, pebbles, sand and dense materials to far places.
... Don't get too minutely scientific about something until we have a better idea of the various ways the Flood might have worked.
And everyone is waiting for you to catch up with the rest of the world on that.
Enjoy.