1. Then they jumped, as one, into the dark sea far below. 2. Across the wine-dark sea they come, honing Kerry's message. 3. He preserves familiar Homeric epithets about the " wine-dark sea ." 4. The newspapers compared South Vietnam to a beacon of light in a dark sea of communism. 5. It is like the light of phosphorous churned up by a ship cutting through a dark sea . 6. This is a continuation of the theme of " The Wine-Dark Sea ". 7. In the bald and barren north, there is a dark sea , the Lake of Heaven. 8. He has performed in events with Lyrically Challenged, Dark Sea Scrolls, and Lost 4 Words. 9. He often relied on white to make the rigging of the ships stand out against the dark sea . 10. Dark sea water would absorb more heat from sunlight than ice would-thereby resulting in increased ocean temperatures.