The sea is a great mystery that neither scientists, nor philosophers, nor old sailors can fully comprehend. The sea is a test for the human soul. Not everyone will decide to go sailing, breaking away from the usual shore, and even more so - to devote their life to hanging out in the sea abysses. But anyone who has at least once come into contact with the external variability of the omnipresent water, which fills our entire existence, will certainly become imbued with involvement in this amazing substance, connecting the islands and continents scattered across the planet, saturating our existence with energy and giving it endless movement. Whoever looked into the ocean looked into eternity. But in the book, the sea is only a background and a connecting thread for the plots presented here. More often these are real events that took place at different times and in different places on our planet. Less often - myths that have their own real basis, which over time turned into an established legend. This book is presented in the second expanded edition.