The name Ocean is both a boy's name and a girl's name of Aboriginal origin.
Abstract: Seeing the sea as a feminine force and flux has a long history in the crosscurrents of Judeo-Christian thought, Enlightenment philosophy, and natural scientific epistemology.
Although it may sound strange referring to an inanimate object as 'she', this tradition relates to the idea of a female figure such as a mother or goddess guiding and protecting a ship and crew.
Aqua, water, is a feminine noun and can mean sea, but mare, however, which specifically means the sea, is a neuter noun.
The Seven Seas include the Arctic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, and Southern oceans.
The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam. Challenger Deep is approximately 10,935 meters (35,876 feet) deep.
National Geographic, one of the world's pre-eminent and most visible mapmaking groups, has officially decreed the existence of a fifth ocean. Called the Southern Ocean, it's the body of water that surrounds Antarctica.
River is a given name of English origin taken from river, the English word for a naturally flowing watercourse. It is in common use in English-speaking countries such as the United States for both males and females.
Earth and water are considered feminine elements. While earth and water move in their own ways, they are typically more still and receptive than air and fire. Feminine energies have the tendency to make you feel held, calm, and returned to source.
There are many different gender identities, including male, female, transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, and all, none or a combination of these.
Types of Ships
And in military terms, many ships are also masculine. A modern aircraft carrier will usually be named after a military man. In fact, this has been a part of naval history for years now. The tradition is well documented.
Why does Santiago see the ocean as feminine? The ocean is like a women who gives or withholds great favor, and if she did wild or wicked things it is because she could not help them. The moon affects her(the ocean) as it does a woman.
Dolphins have no secondary sex characteristics. The only way to determine a dolphin's gender in the wild is to see a clear view of their genitals, or to observe an erection, act of intercourse, or a baby swimming close to an adult presumed to be a female. Males have two slits that look similar to an exclamation point.
In most protogynous fish, some fish will start out lives as male, some will switch from female to male at some point, and some will remain as females for the full duration of their lives.
Gender roles shape the use and collection of water, which are traditionally associated with women in the private, domestic sphere, and the governance of water resources, which are associated with men in the public, monetary sphere.
Most Indian rivers are females, but we have several male rivers too, the most famous being the Brahmaputra, which literally means “Son of Lord Brahma”.
The most yin element, water represents our feminine qualities and a downward, inward energy. Like a lake, the water element helps us return to peace and centre at the end of a cycle and symbolizes stillness and conservation.
Ships are frequently or even usually female, but not always. In particular, in the Second World War the German battleship Bismarck, and another ship built to the same specifications, were regarded as being so magnificent that they were described using male terms.
You can determine the sex of your fish by inspecting its gonads (reproductive organs), which are located towards the top of the gut cavity. Mature female fish will have orange ovaries and male fish will have white testes (see photos above).
Traditionally, ships are given female names because it has been surmised that in ancient history ships were once dedicated to goddesses. When belief in goddesses waned, ships were named after important mortal women.
The so-called Gulf Dead Zone is a region of the ocean where there is so little oxygen that almost no life exists beneath the surface waters. In 2010, the Gulf Dead Zone was about 20,140 square kilometers (7,776 square miles). Dead zones are low-oxygen, or hypoxic, areas in the world's oceans and lakes.
Those who believe Earth's oceans are on an evaporation course say they have about 4 billion years left.
Experts say that by 2050 there may be more plastic than fish in the sea, or perhaps only plastic left. Others say 90% of our coral reefs may be dead, waves of mass marine extinction may be unleashed, and our seas may be left overheated, acidified and lacking oxygen. It is easy to forget that 2050 is not that far off.
The oceans aren't going to dry up. At least not any time soon, so no need to add it to the list of things to worry about. But, what would our planet look like if they did?