Originally posted by KingKickAss:

They're planning on doing more with the ocean, yeah. They also did just add fish.
A secret ocean boss would be really cool, but how the fight would actually go, I have no idea. If its threatening to players, it would likely blow your ship up which would be the end of the fight, and its not like you can repair it or anything way out in the ocean.

Maybe you kill the boss over the course of the entire game, it just appears randomly in the ocean and you chip away at it before escaping. The boss never healing up.

i imagine they would add ship addons so you can repair a ship (for a price) on the fly (or sail rather) if they added in a big ocean boss that could thrash your ship up.

i would love to see oares (for passengers to speed up during bad winds), customizable sails and some sort of work station being added to ships.. like a workbench to repair the ship (possibly with a cooldown so you can't just cheese repair constantly) or at least a fish cleaning station that could, i dunno, increase fish quality over time or simply gut them for some quick food.
oh, and a mead/beer barrel would be neat as well, for RP reasons.