The ocean is a vaster area with no permanent human structures such as roads or towns or direction signs or power poles. This means you must navigate by navigation not by following a road or path that is basically unchanging. The oceans have current and normal directions of swells and migration of fish and sighting of birds that can be as telling to someone experienced with them as a mountain or river would be to someone experienced with those.
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