The ocean fascinated Stephen Hillenburg when he was a child.
=== Etymology ===The word ocean comes from the figure in classical antiquity, Oceanus (; Greek:  keans, pronounced [keans]), the elder of the Titans in classical Greek mythology
 Following a conference in Moscow in October 1981, Hawking and Gary Gibbons organised a three-week Nuffield Workshop in the summer of 1982 on "The Very Early Universe" at Cambridge University, a workshop that focused mainly on inflation theory

