Sea change

Sea change: noun
1
archaic : a change brought about by the sea
2
a marked change : transformation.

Sea change has been on my mind lately. The term comes from Shakespeare's The Tempest:

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

I jumped into the ocean about a month ago, off a dock on an island that I was visiting with good friends. The water was full of bioluminescence and the moon shone down through patches of glowing clouds. The water made me feel alive.