Being at Sea - a podcast by BBC World Service
from 2018-08-13T13:00
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Lesley Curwen has sailed thousands of miles around Europe on her yacht and knows the strange joy of being out of sight of land.
Talking to fellow sea-lovers - sailors, a marine biologist, an artist and a Captain of a merchant ship - she asks why we are drawn to go to sea and put ourselves at the mercy of wind and waves. Is it a yearning to be close to nature, a test of self-reliance or can science explain why our brains are attracted to the ocean?
Photo: The sea. Copyright Shutterstock
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