It is in trying to own the open sea where his greed proves his undoing, when, in a fit of arrogance, he climbs overboard to show that sea who is boss.
C'est en essayant de s'approprier le grand large que sa cupidité le mène à sa perte, quand, dans un accès d'arrogance, il passe par-dessus bord pour montrer à la mer qui est le patron.