Talk:American Mediterranean Sea
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There's only one traceable source here and it's from a book published in 1942. I'm no oceanographer but I've never, ever heard this name for a sea used. Who the hell is talking about the "American Mediterranean Sea" and using it to mean this body of water?
Why is the Cayman Trough not mentioned in this article? It's the most visible and striking oceanic feature in the main image. It contains the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea. It is the boundary between the North American and the Caribbean Plate. Without mention of it in my view this article fails to fully describe its subject. I am a former editor who no longer uses a username but one only has to look at the topographical image to know that this article is deficient in this respect.— Precedingunsigned comment added by208.168.245.192 (talk)04:59, 13 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
One source cited here says the Caribbean Sea + Gulf of Mexico has been erroneously called the American Mediterranean Sea. And with good reason - the Mediterranean Sea is in southern Europe. Mediterranean is frommedi, middle plusterra, earth, the sea in the middle of earth, or an inland sea. At best, it's a colloquial and uninformed name. The article needs to be merged somewhere else; I don't see how we can let is exist named this, and there's no conjunctive name for Gulf of Mexico+Caribbean Sea.Sbalfour (talk)22:13, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The article had read: "The American Mediterranean Sea is a name for the combined watershed of the Mississippi River Basin and the waterbody of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico."
I've removed the part about "watershed of the Mississippi River Basin" because: 1) This is land area, and thus not a part of anysea. 2) If the watershed of the Mississippi is included then one would also have to include the watershed areas of all of the other rivers in the US, Mexico, and Central and South America which flow into the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico.
Frankly, I find this entire notion of an "American Mediterranean Sea" a bit dubious, as I'm not convinced this name for the combined bodies is at all well established. But let's at least present the concept in a reasonable and plausible form, and not make it completely absurd by labeling the vast areas of the North American interior drained by the Mississippi and its tributaries as part of a sea! -2003:CA:8722:333B:51C2:9F80:7C38:D3BF (talk)00:38, 25 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think it could be interesting to add a section in the American Mediterranean Sea page. Here is a quote at the beginning ofA Confederacy of Dunces that has a bit of a reference to this topic of either an 'American Mediterranean' or some connection between it and the [European] Mediterranean.
There is a New Orleans city accent ... associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans."You're right on that. We're Mediterranean. I've never been to Greece or Italy, but I'm sure I'd be at home there as soon as I landed."He would, too, I thought. New Orleans resembles Genoa or Marseilles, or Beirut or the Egyptian Alexandria more than it does New York, although all seaports resemble one another more than they can resemble any place in the interior. Like Havana and Port-au-Prince, New Orleans is within the orbit of a Hellenistic world that never touched the North Atlantic. The Mediterranean, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico form a homogeneous, though interrupted, sea.A. J. Liebling,THE EARL OF LOUISIANAThere is a New Orleans city accent ... associated with downtown New Orleans, particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to distinguish from the accent of Hoboken, Jersey City, and Astoria, Long Island, where the Al Smith inflection, extinct in Manhattan, has taken refuge. The reason, as you might expect, is that the same stocks that brought the accent to Manhattan imposed it on New Orleans.Adamsocki (talk)18:14, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have never heard of the term "American Mediterranean Sea" All I can think of is this is another attempt by those who love Trump to get around Wikipedia not naming the Gulf of Mexico by the name approved by Trump. Wikipedia Editors, please check this again. If I knew how, I would put "Speedy Deletion" On this.
Thank you
MagnummSerpentinee (talk)20:12, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
