Re:How to Escape a Sinking Ship
by pauljurczak on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:43AM
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Good, but the numerous references to the ocean, 14 of them, indicate sloppy writing. Baltic is a relatively small, shallow and closed sea. It can be fierce, but ocean it is not.
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That's misguided pedantry, I think. Most seas are a subset of the ocean, and the Baltic is an arm of the Atlantic.
Re:How to Escape a Sinking Ship
by pauljurczak on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:02AM
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Not to be too pedantic, but there is no connection between the Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea. The North Sea separates them.
And in addition, the article was published in The Atlantic.
Re:How to Escape a Sinking Ship
by pauljurczak on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:55AM
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Pedantry? Perhaps. Baltic Ocean, no way! No Atlantic Sea, either.
Seas tend to be worse than oceans from what I can tell. In the deep ocean there is plenty of water, and little to hit. Thus even when things go wrong there is plenty of forgiveness for error. Shallow seas not so much, off course by a few meters can be fatal.
Of course there are exceptions - as an expert in sailing not me for details.