![]() ![]() If humans view traversing the skies as something done with wonder and freedom, traversing the sea often feels more like a mythical challenge that brings what seems like inevitable doom for those who undertake it. Our ships are little floating islands of civilization in a vast sea of chaos. The sea reminds humans that we are not in control. ![]() Our naval vessels may traverse the giant sea, but seem to do so only by leave of the ocean a permission that can be rescinded at any given moment. It reminds me a bit of the mysteriously affective opening shot of the dark and deep ocean in Titanic. Introduction: The 1960 film The Gallant Hours opens with a haunting choral theme, "I knew a lad who went to sea and left the shore behind him. I knew him well the lad was me and now I cannot find him. Away, away, away he went, in deep and salty water." The theme seems to stir up something in the listener and touch that strange and mystical connection humans have had with the sea for thousands of years.
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