Saewaem Ocean

The Saewaem Ocean.
The smallest of the seven.
And the southernmost ocean on the planet.
The Saewaem Ocean can be found to the greatest distance southward, and is bordered by the continents of Rethium, Olgath, the Histian Empire, Vibricanth and even the Island Nation of Moth to the north. The Saewaem Ocean has been measured to the size of fifteen-million square miles of ocean, less than the size of the Se" Ocean to the far north which holds between fifteen to twenty-million square miles and is largest above the Saewaem Ocean but beneath it's competitors, of which the Thhhraeae Ocean is the king of them all, holding more than one-hundred-million square miles of open space.
The Saewaem Ocean is also considered to be the strangest of them all, as very little is known about it or the continent that lies at it's center at the bottom of the world. Only a few dozen shipwrecks have been found here, of them The Kilmorey being the largest and most famous as a nineteenth-century vessel on a discovery mission to the continent and being sunk during a surprisingly light storm somewhere between Absenia and Moth, where their voyage had started. Of the ninety-seven man crew, none survived the sinking, but of those ninety-seven, only eighteen made it off the ship in a lifeboat before they succumbed to drought and a lack of directional navigation by her inexperienced crew which consisted mostly of gunners, galley and hold staff who had not been trained in means of navigation in case of their vessel being sunk.
The continent of Absenia lies at the center of this ocean, and it is by far the most mysterious of them all due to the existence of a deep and vast cavern system that is home to many species of dinosaurs, which were thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago from a great extinction event that had wiped out nearly eighty percent of the dinosaur population at the time. Surprisingly, from the species and their numbers that did survive, they were able to stabilize and continue living through history, before being discovered sometime in the nineteen-hundreds by explorers who had been sent to collect samples of the ice and the permafrost that had been packed deep beneath the surface. The scientists had originally been sent to collect the samples so as to study the microscopic life living in the depths, but they had found something far more valuable down beneath the cold and barren surface of the continent at the bottom of the world. 
The continent itself is known to expand and contract in size due to the melting and forming of vast ice shelves during the year, although the maps remain roughly the same size and shape from the known currents that move the ice around the continent during the melting months of the year when the ice breaks off and disappears out into the surrounding oceans. Unfortunately, one of these icebergs was known to have sunk the Good Intent, a two-thousand-plus passenger ship sailing between Rethium and Ethlemthos in the nineteen-hundreds, and is one of the only recorded sinking's to have been caused directly by an iceberg in world history. It too along with the Kilmorey, the Earl Of Chatham and the Padstow Bay are voyages listed as taking place during the longest period of world peace, not being caused by any events of civil or worldly unrest. 
The wreck of the Kilmorey can be found in perfect condition from the time it sunk, still in one whole piece after striking the bottom. All known occupants of the vessel were carried away by the current save for the captain who had valiantly remained at his post, tied to the wheel as was custom for any and all ship captains of the time. In fact, it is unknown where this custom originated from and when, but throughout history there have only been around one-dozen recorded incidents of captains abandoning ship before the sinking. 
The Saewaem Ocean is also believed to be one of the most unexplored oceans on the planet, due in part to the uneven topography of the ocean bed, the constant storm weather over the oceans and the lack of scientific studies given to the ocean over the years. Current studies have been ongoing since the mid-nineties, but no full and conclusive results are expected until the early two-thousands or later.

Type

Ocean