Matt Kilty

The Greeks handed it down to the Romans.

It persisted into the Middle Ages.

This idea that the sea, at least on paper, was contained.

But then...

The Europeans, they started building bigger ships.

They started venturing further out.

And as they did, the sea began to expand.

There was Columbus.

This day we completely lost sight of land.

1492, trying to find India.

They wouldn't see it for 33 days.

1501, a matter of a scoochie.

In the vast sea.

Sailing south across the Atlantic.

1520, Magellan crosses the Pacific.

In that exceedingly vast sea.

And in 1580, Sir Francis Drake goes two whole months without seeing land, 10,000 total miles around the globe, proving, for the first time ever, that the sea, in a sense, is never-ending.

And with that, in a matter of a century, the ocean went from something that was contained to something that was terrifyingly, staggeringly huge.

As these explorers mapped out the oceans, we began to realize that we were just simply a speck floating on this vast, churning sea.

and to stand on any shore and look out across that vastness.