Dude, it doesn't matter. It's like Pluto. I've always been taught Pluto was a planet, I've always been taught there are four oceans.
5 oceans - which have you seen?
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Dude, it doesn't matter. It's like Pluto. I've always been taught Pluto was a planet, I've always been taught there are four oceans.
I've seen the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans--the Atlantic from the east (English Channel), and the Pacific from the east and west (California-Washington, and Japan). I probably flew over the Arctic ocean on the way to Japan, and that was a window seat, so I may have seen that too.
Perhaps such "emo whingeing" just goes to show that many of your "basic tenents of society" are illusions based on elaborate fictions and relativisms that have little or no basis in physical reality.
Of the modern oceans, I've seen only the Atlantic (from both sides) and Pacific. I hope to someday set foot in the Indian and Arctic Oceans, too.
Something seems amiss in the designation of the Antarctic ocean. It is much smaller than the other oceans, disturbingly regular, and lacks a geologic boundary (either continental or crust).
Something seems amiss in the designation of the Antarctic ocean. It is much smaller than the other oceans, disturbingly regular, and lacks a geologic boundary (either continental or crust).
Pluto never should have been a planet in the first place and everyone knew it. If you ask me somebody probably owed Clyde Tombaugh a favor or two.
Just the Atlantic, including a big fat deal of the Mediterranean Sea, obviously.
I've sailed on the Pacific, Atlantic and Southern Oceans. I may or may not have been in the Indian Ocean. Looking at the map, I was very close to the generally-recognized border south of Australia, but I think I stayed just to the east of it. I've been north of the Arctic Circle a couple of times, but I was still quite a ways (hundreds of miles) from the Arctic Ocean.
I've seen the Atlantic from both sides, and the Pacific from one side and from a spot nearer the middle, where it's the Pacific in all directions.
It's an arm of the Pacific (which completely surrounds Vancouver Island) so it counts.
I have seen the Atlantic Ocean (from both sides), the Pacific Ocean (from both sides), the Indian Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean (spent some time in Barrow Alaska - northernmost point of the United States that sits right on the Arctic Ocean).
I grew up on the Atlantic (east coast of South Florida)...but the Arctic was most interesting because being there was so surreal. I stood on the beach for all of one entire October night, freezing my tootsies off while the Native Alaskans hauled in and butchered a 42-foot whale which was part of their annual quota.
It was fascinating. The entire village turned out for the occasion and it basically turned into an all-night working party.
Just as fascinating was watching my Deloitte & Touche male co-workers endeavor to join 'The Polar Bear Club' via stripping down to their birthday suits and running and jumping into the freezing water....and coming back out to meet a numbingly cold wind off the ocean.
I held their clothes.
Shrinkage was....significant. And no...I don't mean their clothes.
Ahhh.....Accountant of the Wild Frontier. Those were the days!!!!
I grew up on the Atlantic (east coast of South Florida)...but the Arctic was most interesting because being there was so surreal. I stood on the beach for all of one entire October night, freezing my tootsies off while the Native Alaskans hauled in and butchered a 42-foot whale which was part of their annual quota.
It was fascinating. The entire village turned out for the occasion and it basically turned into an all-night working party.
Just as fascinating was watching my Deloitte & Touche male co-workers endeavor to join 'The Polar Bear Club' via stripping down to their birthday suits and running and jumping into the freezing water....and coming back out to meet a numbingly cold wind off the ocean.
I held their clothes.
Shrinkage was....significant. And no...I don't mean their clothes.
Ahhh.....Accountant of the Wild Frontier. Those were the days!!!!
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Just the Pacific Ocean, as I've lived on the east coast of the Australian coast all my life.
You have never been to South Australia or the West Coast of Tasmania and seen the Indian Ocean from either of those two places?
^ Nope. The further west I've been was NT, and I didn't go to Darwin.
I have been to all every Australian states but none of the territories.
At the end of the day, it's all just one big mass of water, broken up by annoying bits of land. 
So you're saying it should just be 1 ocean? Seen as there's no actual point at where they're totally divided off from each other.At the end of the day, it's all just one big mass of water, broken up by annoying bits of land.
This frightens me; I think there must be a shared Deloitte insanity gene. A friend of mine is married to a Deloitte accountant and she insisted on showing me a pic of her half-naked hubby emerging from an equally cold ocean.
(don't ask me why she wanted me to see this...)
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