open ocean

The Arctic is quickly losing sea ice, which is being replaced by relatively warmer open ocean.

It's a scene repeated by thousands of Cubans who, desperate to leave, took to the open ocean.

He woos her with tales of his fraught relationship with Queen Isabella of Spain and his love of the open ocean.

Probably nine tenths of all the coast lines of the open ocean are formed of arenaceous material.

To the north, pack-ice in variable amount is encountered before reaching the wide open ocean.

The open ocean and the open water of our Great Lakes are the only regions free from them.

He would rather be clinging to a mast in the open ocean than stand on the deck of a stanch ship, if her hold was on fire!

They are mostly littoral species, none inhabiting deep water, and none straying into the open ocean.