How far out is classed as the ocean?

Not by Jack, that involves work and he has this allergy.......... Mind you his words could sting was you listening!!

 

Why walruss that is the nicest thing you ever said to me, Ive gone all red.

Recognition for my work at last.


Any way 2 people now have mentioned that the ocean is water over an oceanic crust. All you guys can do is harp on about ducks n stuff.

Ok this is a boat forum and this is a fair question for our more intelligent members. Some guy is serious here and wants to know where the ocean is?

 

Sorry Jack, didn't mean to be nice to you, I know how embarassed you get, but it just slipped out! Now where have I heard that before?

 

But then again-disneyland only needs 1 Donald duck!lol

 

At the risk of being accused of being more intelligent than I am, I'd say the question was answered scientifically by the 2 guys who cited the geological definitions. It was answered legally by several members who quoted the various regulations promulgated by several government agencies, insurance industry organizations, and shipping associations. The fact that there were at least 10 times as many legal definitions mentioned (and that only a sampling from a few countries) as scientific definitions demonstrates again that the purpose of governments and industrial associations is to perpetuate the welfare dole for bureaucrats and lawyers.

While all this was going on, dominic, the guy who first asked, said the question was answered for him back on page 2. No one noticed, because we were engaging in our favorite pastime of multiplying digressions. Less informative, but a bit more fun.

 

Yes,but it would be nice to find out other definitions,just like ALowell (i think thats it) wants to know!

 

naw! it's the discussion that counts! who really cares what the 'oggin is actually called? Ready for incoming!!

 

I was walking past some swans yesterday (we have some fake lakes in the city), and I noticed the swans do something I have never seen before (maybe I hadn't paid enough attention before).

As I was standing there, thinking about this thread, going "Nah, that's a racing version, if there ever was one!" I looked a bit further out in the water, and the swans looked like they were rowing: You know, that movement were the boat moves forward in jolts? Turns out, that the swans, while in the deep, would use both legs simultanously to push as hard as they could to get to hull-speed (not kidding), and when the swans who did that, got into shallow water, they would do the same, but with one foot at the time (not really paddling, but pushing hard, skip one, push with the other, skip one, and so forth).

I never knew swans did that - Usually they paddle like the ducks. Has anyone else noticed that form of "swimming" from swans? Or ducks, for that matter?

 

I'm just surprised at the number of black swans I see out in the salt water. I always thought they preffered fresh water lakes and stuff.

Mychael

 

Haha, yup, that sounds plausible

A biological boat pole. Flexible too!

 

charmc,you have put the quote from dainishbagger instead of jack frost!

 

Sorry for the confusion. It was jack being so funny, hard to believe....

 

Hi all
The Swans you saw were remote controlled robots. Hence the jerky movement. They use fake swans for the average Joe to look at while the few remaining swans are kept in private government reserves and only looked at by the wealthy with political ambitions. As for the black swans, they used to be white but that changed after a few oil tankers decided to moore their boats on the rocks or was it tanked captains with rye on the rocks? They were probably fake too. CRS is a wonderful illness. LOL