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the ancient blue ledger where the sky comes to drown and be reborn
means The vast body of salt water that covers most of the planet, smaller than an ocean but no less able to swallow a ship.
from From Old English 'sǣ', a word shared across the Germanic languages — a cousin of Dutch 'zee' and German 'See'. Its deeper roots are murky: scholars trace it to a Proto-Germanic '*saiwiz', but beyond that the trail runs cold, as if the word itself sank without leaving a clear shore behind.
- oxygen source
- Ocean plankton make over half Earth's oxygen
- unexplored
- Over 80% has never been mapped or seen
- sound trap
- Whale songs travel thousands of miles underwater
- salt math
- Holds enough salt to bury all land 500 feet
- deepest point
- The Mariana Trench could swallow Everest whole
mediterranean sea — body of water bordered by europe, asia, and africa, covering 2.5 million km²
dead sea — salt lake between israel and jordan, 1,410 feet below sea level, lowest point on earth
baltic sea — enclosed sea in northern europe surrounded by 9 countries, including sweden and poland
red sea — body of water between africa and asia, connecting the mediterranean via the suez canal