Ether 2:1 - Jared and his brother, and their families, and also the friends of Jared and his brother and their families, went down into the valley which was northward, (and the name of the valley was Nimrod, being called after the mighty hunter) with their flocks…
"Never"... as in, since the days of Adam? Interesting...
Ether 2:7 - "And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop beyond the sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth even unto the land of promise, which was choice above all other lands, which the Lord God had preserved for a righteous people... it came to pass that the Lord did bring Jared and his brethren forth even to that great sea which divideth the lands. And as they came to the sea they pitched their tents
And they called the name of the place Moriancumer; and they dwelt in tents, and dwelt in tents upon the seashore for the space of four years.
---4 yrs and one chastisement later ---
Ether 2:16 - the Lord said: Go to work and build, after the manner of barges which ye have hitherto built... the brother of Jared did go to work, and also his brethren, and built barges after the manner which they had built, according to the instructions of the Lord. And they were small, and they were light upon the water, even like unto the lightness of a fowl upon the water.
The thermohaline circulation is sometimes called the ocean conveyor belt, the great ocean conveyor, or the global conveyor belt.
This is the ONLY place on the planet that the Thermohaline / North Atlantic Current (NAC) will PUSH a barge across the Atlantic ocean, past Greenland down into Nova Scotia/Maine down the St. Lawrence Seaway into "Vineland" in North America...
Ether 6:4 - "And it came to pass that when they had prepared all manner of food, that thereby they might subsist upon the water, and also food for their flocks and herds, and whatsoever beast or animal or fowl that they should carry with them—and it came to pass that when they had done all these things, they got aboard of their vessels or barges, and set forth into the sea...
NOTES: Vikings (descendents of Japeth) would use that same launch point...
Ether 2:25 - "that ye may have light when ye are swallowed up in the depths of the sea?"
"it came to pass that they were many times buried in the depths of the sea, because of the mountain waves which broke upon them"
"And it came to pass that when they were buried in the deep there was no water that could hurt them, their vessels being tight like unto a dish"
"And thus they were driven forth; and no monster of the sea could break them, neither whale that could mar them; and they did have light continually, whether it was above the water or under the water"
Book of Mormon Centerl reached the same conclusion:
https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/where-did-the-brother-of-jared-get-the-idea-of-shining-stonesWayne May's "Jaredites" speech
Image: 7953U
File date: 2009-11-17
Caption: Olmec Ballplayer
Description: Olmec. clay. Ballplayer. La Venta Museum. ht apprx 7 cm
There is a photo of a glyph... at Palenque, Schele collection... of this man's face.
1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala
~ 4,094 miles to Labrador... via NAC
~ 6,987 miles to "Vineland" via St. Lawrence seaway... ~2 mph... ~3,500 hrs /24 => ~145.83 days...
Ether 6:11 - "And thus they were driven forth, three hundred and forty and four days upon the water."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current reaches speeds of 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph; 1.0 m/s) near the North American coast
The EAC reaches a maximum velocity at 30° S, where its flow can reach 90 cm/s ≈ 2.0132427 Miles per Hour