05 May 10 08:22, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Hmmm. Today's seven seas are the North Atlantic, South Atlantic,
 RW>> North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, Antarctic, and Arctic Oceans.

 RN> Those are oceans.

An ocean consists of certain bodies of water, i.e. the Atlantic Ocean
consists of the following seas. Some say that only saline bodies of water
should be considered.

    * Adriatic Sea * Aegean Sea * Alboran Sea * Argentine Sea
    * Bay of Biscay * Bay of Bothnia * Bay of Campeche * Bay of Fundy
    * Baltic Sea * Black Sea * Bothnian Sea * Caribbean Sea
    * Celtic Sea * Central Baltic Sea * Chesapeake Bay * Davis Strait
    * Denmark Strait * English Channel * Gulf of Bothnia * Gulf of Guinea
    * Gulf of Finland * Gulf of Mexico * Gulf of Sidra * Gulf of St.
      Lawrence * Gulf of Venezuela * Ionian Sea * Irish Sea * Labrador Sea
    * Ligurian Sea * Marmara Sea * Mediterranean Sea * Mirtoon Sea
    * North Sea * Norwegian Sea * Sargasso Sea * Sea of Azov * Sea of
      Crete * Sea of the Hebrides * Thracian Sea * Tyrrhenian Sea
    * Wadden Sea

 RW>> At that time, the Agean, Adriatic, Red (including the Dead and Sea
 RW>> of Galilee), Arabian, Persian and Caspian Seas were in the vacinity
 RW>> of the eastern Mediteranian Sea.

 RN> I'm not quite that old, but what I was taught in school is as
 RN> follows:

 RN> 1. Arabian Sea
 RN> 2. Adriatic Sea
 RN> 3. Black Sea
 RN> 4. Caspian Sea
 RN> 5. Mediterranean Sea
 RN> 6. Persian Gulf
 RN> 7. Red Sea

 RN> Number 6 is the one I alluded to.  Kinda antique stuff, I know, but I
 RN> still remember the term "I sailed the 7 seas" from the movies of
 RN> yesteryear.  So, you were mostly right.

In that case, you would have to include all small bodies of water that
make up each ocean.


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