Quotes About Ocean

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

SHARK KILLS SECOND BATHER IN NEW JERSEY JULY 7, 1916 SPRING LAKE, NEW JERSEY

He loved when Nate sang shanties — the songs sailors crooned as they did their work.

Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa, the seat of the family homestead. He spent his childhood in northwestern Portugal, within sight of the pounding surf of the Atlantic.

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

With their shallow draught and movable sails, Henry's caravels could set a course close to the wind

Their sterns rose high out of the water, towering as much as thirty feet over the waves

frigid spray splattered his exposed bottom. (More than one sailor lost his life when he plunged from the jardines

After several months at sea, the five ships of the Armada

Each ship had three masts, one of which carried a lateen sail.

he made out a broad sandbank strewn with the skeletons of whales—a suggestion that he had come across a migration route

The gray water churned angrily where competing tides vied with one another

water and strong currents, appearing to be a strait and the mouth of a big gulf that might be discharging into it.

Elizabeth crossed the Sargasso Sea without incident

Núñez de Balboa had glimpsed the vast ocean to the west: the Pacific

the black ships reached the expansive mouth of San Matías Gulf, on the coast of Argentina.

principal breeding site of the Southern Right Whale.

the Armada de Molucca was at last ready to conquer the ocean.

and sealing leaks. There was also a complement of divers aboard the fleet, whose job it was to swim under the ships

Magellan of October was on the

The water is of a fine blue colour

the seas began to churn, tossing the ship as if she were nothing more than an oversized piece of flotsam.

Serrano had no time to reef the sails. Fierce seas pounded the ship

Santiago washed ashore before breaking up.