go to sea
Verb
Meaning
go to sea (third-person singular simple present goes to sea, present participle going to sea, simple past went to sea, past participle gone to sea)
(idiomatic) To become a sailor.
Examples
Being rational creatures, they go to sea with it ready calculated; and all rational creatures go out upon the sea of life with their minds made up on the common questions of right and wrong.
Lee (2005) pp.289-290 Stung by the prospect of being disgraced before the fleet, Villeneuve resolved to go to sea before his successor could reach Cádiz.
“Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
Fishing vessels work in pairs and go to sea for about a week at a time to operate fishing trawls, aiming to catch rosy sea bass, also known as nodoguro black throat sea perch, as well as right-eyed flounders and anglerfish, among others.
Before then I worked in the business world, attended college, and served in the Navy, which I joined out of high school because I wanted to go to sea and travel the world.
These smaller, true littoral combat ships, that go to sea with much smaller crews than their bloated LCS counterparts, could be operated for a fraction of the cost comparatively.