Modern engineers have designed this ship. We know our position on the globe with the aid of a passing satellite. The latest technology, we've got it. Rooms are filled with computers. Antennas spike the air.
Weather reports spew out of machines.
But still, this is the sea and she has known more sailors than us. The sea, billions of years old with billions of years yet to live. The sea, the womb of life, the giver of life, from whom all life emerged. The sea, the memory of her lingers in our salty blood, in our tears and in the amniotic sac in which new life grows. We have skimmed across her surface for millenia.