This is the Mediterranean Sea as viewed from Italy. One cannot actually view this as a calm sea except there are no white caps. That wave in the foreground is a breaking wave. The Mediterranean Sea is interesting, especially at the Straits of Gilbralter. There is a huge 'ocean fall' (not water fall) that leaves the sea to mix with ocean water. The ocean fall at the straits is significant in that the velocity could literally (if tapped for energy) produce large amounts of electric (hydroelectric) power that would probably power every nation of Europe or North Africa or those of the Mediterranean Sea. That ocean fall at the straits is very, very interesting to me, as it leaves the straits and tumbles right to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean without being disrupted by ocean currents coming south along the continental margin.