There’s something about the sea. Something that lures us. Sailors have known this from the time the first vessel pushed off from the shore. Those who live by the sea, long for the sea, sail on the sea, feel its siren call in the very depths of our souls.

I know the sea calms me when I need solace, excites me when I yearn for adventure, and thrills me when I think about the vastness of its depths and the far-off shores beyond its horizons. The sea with its waves and billows seems to speak with the powerful voice of the Earth itself that says, “I know things you cannot begin to understand!”

Being out on the sea, whether whale watching, paragliding, jet skiing, or sailing, we can feel as though we inhabit a different kind of world, in which the realities of culture and schedules and work and bu…