[Hot Tabasco]

Since the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are connected and water seeks its own level, shouldn't the Atlantic ocean have risen also?

I'm confused...

[xzins]

You are onto a tobasco hot kind of truth. YES. Seeks its own level is what I was always taught.

[palmer]

Since the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are connected and water seeks its own level, shouldn't the Atlantic ocean have risen also?

Not without the Isthmus of Panama closed. The Pacific is about 9 inches higher than the Atlantic. But the western Pacific can vary by a couple feet depending on how hard the trade winds are blowing.