Unpredictable

The sea is never the same, you don’t know what to expect. The sea is always different; sometimes we were very angry at the sea because we could not do our job properly.

To be at sea was always an adventure because you’d never know what was going to happen. You would be on the ship with six other people. When we would come back on shore, we would have a special feeling of accomplishment. If someone was in trouble, the others would help to get him out of trouble. Now its more difficult.

Humans are very vulnerable at sea. There’s huge Unpredictability: every time there is something that you don’t expect. That’s why the skipper is next to God.

T.v.A. Power (on the one hand) – don’t want it to be the power, not the power that comes.
Approachability /friendliness. But the sea is not friendly, at least not in an anthropomorphic sense.
Completeness. So complete that it represents so many things at the same time. I think that’s what attracts me so much.
→ It’s Depth. But a depth on all levels. It resonates on multiple levels/there’s a complexity.
It’s impossible to know it. Like the spot where I take the photographs: I don’t know anything about it + I have been there 150 times. You think the sea is predictable but it’s totally not. Even though all those things are true, I don’t feel frightened by it.