By the angry sea,
I gasped on land,
And I became me.
He was enchanted by the mystery of coming ashore naked on an unfamiliar island. He resolved to let the adventure run its full course, resolved to see just how far a man might go, emerging naked from salt water."
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
It certainly is advantageous for the adventurer to live by the sea.
