The sea is a special thing. It has a call to it that cannot be denied. Its gentle waves, its black depths beckon with their beauty and horror. On a scientific level, the ocean is just an incredibly vast collection of water, but on a realer, more human, level, it is far more.
Perhaps that is why so many of us, even landsman, have a fascination with it. Even here, in our city whose name contains the very word “sea,” we are surrounded on all sides but water. And when we partake in decidedly land based activities, such as baseball, we name our team “Mariners” after many of the people who gave this city its identity in the early days.