I’ve lived in So Cal and Fla. I’ve been in the ocean in both places. I’ve crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific by ship. They’re very, very big. I like the oceans, they’re nice to look at.
There’s lots of strange and hostile things in the oceans. There are lots of things in the oceans that want to kill and eat you. Lot’s of creepy things brushing up against you. You’re just food to them.
The oceans are vast and infinite. You are smaller than a grain of sand in the ocean. The oceans don’t care about you. You are nothing to the oceans. You’re just a tidbit of food or flotsam.
Run or swim for your life. Danger, Danger, you’re going to die!
I live a block from the beach in Jupiter and I always go in the ocean whenever I go to the beach, but it is usually a very brief swim. News copters will show (usually in the summer) dozens of sharks in very shallow water. When I see that, I stay away.