5 oceans - which have you seen?

[eastman23]

No oceans for me. The closest I've been is the Strait of Georgia next to Vancouver. I'm not sure if that would be considered Pacific Ocean or not, but I'm guessing not.

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

I joined the Navy to see the world and all I saw was the sea, sea, sea...

 

[Vanyel]

I've seen them all.

In person, I've seen the Pacific and Atlantic. I've seen the Mediterranean too? Is it a part of the Atlantic?

 

[Joshua Howard]

The only ocean I have ever seen in the Pacific Ocean, and oddly enough, that happened just last month (In spite of the fact that I have spent my whole life living less than 100 miles away from it.) In spite of being in New York briefly, I have never seen the Atlantic shoreline, or yet been in another country.

 

[auntiehill]

The Pacific and the Atlantic. And swam in both, too.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

The Pacific and the Atlantic. And swam in both, too.

Ditto.

 

[Doggeh]

Both Atlantic and Pacific, stateside.

And Lake Michigan is about an hours drive from me, does that count?

 

[JuanBolio]

Only the Atlantic, both down near the gulf and from a very high altitude between Nova Scotia and Britain.

Seen all the Great Lakes, too. That should count for something.

 

[Yoda]

It's all just nasty tasting saltwater... I've seen the Atlantic and the Pacific.

 

[FordSVT]

Atlantic and Pacific.

I've also been on the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas.

 

[Michael Chris]

The Southern Ocean? There are four oceans in my view, ymmv.

That said, I have only seen the Atlantic and Pacific.

 

[zephramc]

Pacific -- from the US west coast
Atlantic -- from both sides of the pond.

 

[Tulin]

Indian - I live in Perth and have swam in it all my life

Pacific - from Venice Beach in California in 2001. Also sailed on it from Milford Sound in New Zealand and STEPPED in it from the east side of the South Island at the Morekai Boulders in March of this year(I got video footage of my feet stepping into the water with a Homer "WOO HOO!!!" to show I actually stepped into the Pacific Ocean).

Atlantic - from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida

 

[Tulin]

The Southern Ocean? There are four oceans in my view, ymmv.

That said, I have only seen the Atlantic and Pacific.

From WorldAtlas.com

For many years only (4) four oceans were officially recognized, and then in the spring of 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization established the Southern Ocean, and determined its limits. Those limits include all water below 60 degrees south, and some of it, like the Arctic Ocean, is frozen.

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/oceans.htm

 

[Michael Chris]

So? Like I said your (or the International Hydrographic Organization) mileage may vary.. I also have geography texts from the early 1900s talking about five oceans. It's all relative, and I have a different idea. Who cares what an international body says?

 

[Kommander]

Only the Atlantic.

I've urinated in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and three of the Great Lakes (Huron, Michigan, and Erie.)

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I've lived on coastal cities of the Pacific Ocean all my life so it would be weirdt to live somewhere and not be able to see it. I saw the Atlantic once while driving down the east coast of America.

 

[Tulin]

So? Like I said your (or the International Hydrographic Organization) mileage may vary.. I also have geography texts from the early 1900s talking about five oceans. It's all relative, and I have a different idea. Who cares what an international body says?

It doesn't matter what your ideas are - I am of the "idea" that I shouldn't have to pay to enter theme parks and should be able to have sex in public whenever I wish.

Doesn't mean I am right and will get my way.

If you decide that an inch is actually equal to the equivalent of 3.5 inches, that doesn't mean it will be true. In fact, we NEED such concrete consensus for society to function.

These kinds of bodies exist to create these definitions by which factual knowledge can be reached. Without such definitions, the basic tenets of society break down.


Anything else is just emo whingeing and trying to be counter culture cool.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

I just saw the Indian Ocean for the first time while in South Africa last month. Beyond that, I've seen the Pacific in Hawaii and I've seen the Atlantic countless times.

 

[John Picard]

Thanks to the US Navy, I've sailed the Pacific and Indian oceans. I've seen parts of the Pacific Ocean so smooth, it looked like glass. I could just imagine being able to step out and walk on the surface.