Who hath desired the Sea?öthe sight of salt water unboundedö The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and growingö Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed Hurricane blowing.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Sea and the Hills'.