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Sea of Crete
The Sea of Crete (Greek: Kritiko Pelagos, "Cretan Sea") is the southernmost part of the Aegean Sea, lying between Crete and the Cyclades, and the Aegean's deepest basin at 2,500 m.
Sea of Galilee (יָם כִּנֶּרֶת)
Sea of Galilee (Yam Kinneret, Lake Tiberias, Lake Kinneret), Israel's largest freshwater lake in the Jordan Rift Valley, fed by the Jordan River, historically the source of the National Water Carrier and since 2025 refilled with desalinated water.
Sea of Japan (日本海)
Sea of Japan (日本海), also called East Sea: a semi-enclosed Northwest Pacific marginal sea bordered by Japan, Russia, and Korea, area 1.013 million km2, max depth 3,700 m, connected by four shallow straits, a back-arc basin opened from the Eocene, warming faster than the global ocean.
Sea of Love (film)
Sea of Love is a 1989 American erotic thriller directed by Harold Becker, written by Richard Price, and starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, and John Goodman.
Sea of Marmara
Sea of Marmara (Marmara Denizi), Turkey's inland sea linking Black Sea and Mediterranean via Bosphorus and Dardanelles; lies on North Anatolian Fault with major seismic gap, two-layer Black Sea–Mediterranean water exchange, and 2021 mucilage crisis.
Sea of Okhotsk (Охотское море)
Sea of Okhotsk (Охотское море), a marginal sea of the North Pacific between Siberia, Sakhalin, the Kurils, and Hokkaido; the Southern Hemisphere's northern counterpart in seasonal sea ice, source of North Pacific intermediate water, major pollock fishery, and site of declining ice cover.
Sea of Poppies
Sea of Poppies is a 2008 historical novel by Amitav Ghosh, set in 1838 on the eve of the First Opium War and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Sea of Remnants
Sea of Remnants (遗忘之海) is a free-to-play ocean-fantasy open-world role-playing game by Joker Studio and NetEase Games, announced in June 2025 for PlayStation 5, PC, and mobile.
Sea of Stars
Sea of Stars is a 2023 turn-based role-playing game by Canadian studio Sabotage Studio, following two Children of the Solstice who battle the alchemist Fleshmancer.
Sea of the Hebrides
Sea of the Hebrides: Atlantic sea between Scotland's Inner and Outer Hebrides; also a large Scottish Nature Conservation MPA protecting basking shark, minke whale, fronts, and marine geological features.
Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves: shared-world pirate adventure by Rare, published by Xbox Game Studios. Announced E3 2015, released 20 March 2018; cosmetic-only progression, Tall Tales story campaign, cross-play and cross-progression across Xbox, PC, and PS5.
Sea Org
The Sea Org (Sea Organization) is the dedicated religious order of the Church of Scientology, founded at sea in 1967, whose members sign a one-billion-year pledge of service.
Sea otter
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), smallest North American marine mammal, a keystone North Pacific mustelid with the densest fur of any mammal, no blubber, and extreme metabolic demands; nearly exterminated by the fur trade, now recovering.
Sea Patrol
Sea Patrol (2007–2011) is an Australian Nine Network action drama, 68 episodes over five seasons, following the crew of the fictional RAN patrol boat HMAS Hammersley; produced by Hal and Di McElroy at about A$1 million per episode and sold to 35 territories.
Sea pen
Sea pen (Pennatulacea, Pennatuloidea): a colonial octocoral in which one primary polyp forms a muscular, sediment-anchored stalk bearing feeding autozooids and pumping siphonozooids. About 236 species worldwide from intertidal to over 6,100 m; VME indicator taxon; origin near 144 Ma.
Sea Peoples
Sea Peoples: modern label for named seafaring groups (Peleset, Sherden, Tjeker, Denyen, Shekelesh, Weshesh, Ekwesh, Teresh, Lukka) who attacked Egypt under Merneptah and Ramesses III; known chiefly from Medinet Habu reliefs, dated 1192–1190 BC in the Levant.
Sea Peoples invasion of Egypt
The Sea Peoples invasion of Egypt was a coalition attack on the Nile Delta in Ramesses III's eighth regnal year, defeated on land and at sea around 1177 BC.
Sea salt
Sea salt: salt made by evaporating seawater or salt-lake water, less processed than mined table salt. Retains trace minerals, same sodium by weight, usually not iodized, harvested from solar evaporation ponds worldwide.
Sea serpent
Sea serpent: a mythological, snake-like marine creature of world folklore. Key sightings include the 1817 Gloucester serpent (Scoliophis atlanticus) and the 1848 HMS Daedalus encounter; explanations invoke oarfish, giant squid, and whales.
Sea Service Ribbon
Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, or Navy Sea Service Ribbon: US Navy and Marine Corps award established May 22, 1980, retroactive to August 15, 1974, for 12 months of sea duty including a 90-day deployment.
Sea Shadow (IX-529)
Sea Shadow (IX-529) was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to test radar signature reduction and the SWATH hull form, revealed in 1993.
Sea shanty
A sea shanty, also spelled chantey or chanty, is a work song sung by sailors to coordinate group labor aboard merchant sailing ships, flourishing in the 1800s.
Sea shanty festival
A sea shanty festival is a coastal music event centered on sea songs, especially shanties, the work songs once used to coordinate labor aboard sailing ships.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a marine conservation organization founded by Paul Watson in Vancouver in 1977, known for direct-action campaigns against illegal fishing and whaling.
Sea Shimooka
Sea Shimooka (born 1995) is an American mixed Asian-Pacific Islander actress and filmmaker, BFA from NYU, known as Sophon in Netflix's 3 Body Problem and Emiko Queen in Arrow season 8.
Sea slug
Sea slug: descriptive term for shell-less or shell-reduced marine gastropods (Heterobranchia), covering nudibranchs, sea hares, sacoglossans, and pteropods; not a taxonomic group; includes solar-powered kleptoplastic Elysia.
Sea snail
Sea snails are marine gastropod molluscs with a foot, tentacles, radula, and usually a coiled shell; about 105,000 living species, including venomous cone snails (Conus) and shell-less nudibranchs.
Sea snake
Sea snake: venomous marine elapids, including true sea snakes (Hydrophiini) and sea kraits (Laticaudinae), over 70 Indo-Pacific species with paddle tails, valvular nostrils, elongated lungs, and potent neurotoxic, myotoxic venom.
Sea spider
Sea spider (Pycnogonida, Pantopoda): marine arthropod sister to all other chelicerates, not a true spider. About 1,500 species, proboscis feeding, no lungs, males carry eggs, Antarctic giants over 70 cm leg span.
Sea Star (satellite)
SeaStar, also designated OrbView-2, was an American commercial Earth-observation satellite operated by Orbital Sciences Corporation and launched in 1997, carrying SeaWiFS, a radiometer measuring ocean color for NASA research.