Sublime

In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much of it destroyed, the sea remains the final unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilderness, the planet’s last great frontier. There are no mobile phones down there, no e-mails, no tweeting, no twerking, no car keys to lose, no terrorist

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth. Here, perhaps, was an even stranger sea—not circular, but cylindrical.