Why do we need to determine the Ocean’s pronouns?
He’s something I didn’t know:
In Italian (including all Italian dialects) and Portuguese, the sea is strictly masculine: il mare (Sicilian: u mari, Venetian: el mar, Neapolitan: ‘o mare, Sardinian: su mari, Corsican: u mare) and o mar (the same for Galician); however in French and Romanian it is feminine: la mer and la mare.
https://bostonlanguage.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/what-gender-is-the-sea/