What is the furthest you have been out to sea? I only got as far as the mouth of the Halifax

[applegrove]

harbour when i went whale watching. Saw the spine of a Minke whale. I could have swum to shore no problem. Taken a few ferries in my time: vancouver, PEI, and Dover-Calais.

[csziggy]

1. I guess the canals around Miami don't count?

I think I swam about 100 feet offshore in the Gulf of Mexico once.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Middle of the North Atlantic.

Crossed it on this in 1967;



SS United States. Fastest ocean liner ever built.

[elleng]

3. ACROSS!

from Britain, back to NY Harbor!

[HeiressofBickworth]

4. Rotterdam to NYC 1967

Also took a cruise down the west coast of Mexico but I don't know how far away from land we actually got.

Locally, ferries.

[Chan790]

5. Middle of Long Island Sound.

I've never actually been more than 200 yards into the Atlantic Ocean and I swam in the Gulf of Mexico off Tres Palacios Bay, TX. (The entire bay isn't any deeper than knee-depth, you could walk across it.)

[trackfan]

6. Catalina Island. nt

[Demonaut]

7. two western pacific cruises...way out and stayed there

[pintobean]

15. One West-Pac for me.

California to Mombasa, Kenya with many points in between.

[nolabear]

8. To Jamaica and The Bahamas.

Cruises. I love the ocean.

[Odin2005]

9. Does Lake Superior count?

[Worried senior]

25. I was out a little ways on Lake Superior

and that was far enough for me. Don't ever have plans of sailing on the ocean.

[WillParkinson]

10. I want to at least get to the tongue of Halifax....

But it's unlikely I'll ever get to see the sea.

[applegrove]

12. LOL!

[denbot]

11. Across, and then some..

On this little lady:

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[zipplewrath]

20. Did ya cross the equator?

I understand that makes the trip all that more..... memorable.

By the by, the lady have a name?

[Art_from_Ark]

13. I once took a ferry from Aomori (Honshu) to Hakodate (Hokkaido), Japan

It was a 4-hour trip, and I was probably no more than 10 miles from land at any given time.

[sakabatou]

14. By boat?

[hobbit709]

16. From Brindisi, Italy to Corfu, Greece by ferry and back-several times.

In a small boat about 25 miles out into the Gulf of Mexico from Pt. Aransas in a 20-ft sailboat

[av8rdave]

17. In a boat, a few hundred miles north of Grand Turk

In a plane, I routinely cross the North Atlanti & the Pacific.

[DHCT010]

18. across the Atlantic

[pipi_k]

19. However far

the deep sea fishing charters go out...what's that, about 10 miles or so?

Off the coast of CT near Milford and off the coast of NH just south of Portsmouth.

[charlie and algernon]

21. I went whale watching off of Cape Cod

We saw several whales. I don't know how far we were out.

[ohiosmith]

22. 140,000 nautical miles in 36 months. Circumnavigated the planet three times.

This was our Captain on two of the Grand World Voyages:

[auntAgonist]

23. from Greenock Scotland to Montreal Canada by ship. n/t

[RebelOne]

24. On cruises in the Caribbean and the Atlantic.

One from Miami to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Another from Miami to Nassau.

[sarge43]

26. Crossed the English Channel by ferry

Waded into the Pacific up to my knees. Otherwise got nothin'.

[geardaddy]

27. Dover to Oostende and back

Holyhead to Dublin and back

Zhanjiang to Haikou, Hainan Island PRC.