Seachange

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Seachange or sea change is a poetical or informal term meaning a profound transformation; big significant change. The expression is Shakespeare's, taken from the song in The Tempest, when Ariel sings,

"Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are corals made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes,
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change,
into something rich and strange,
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell,
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell."

It may be applied to:

• Sea Change, a crime novel by Robert B. Parker
• Seachange (demography), an Australian demographic phenomenon
• SeaChange, an Australian drama television series
• The Real Seachange, an Australian reality television series
• Seachange (band), a band on the Matador Records record label
• Sea Change, a 2002 album by Beck
• "Sea Change" (Transformers episode), episode 53 in the second season of Transformers
• SeaChange International, a manufacturer of video systems
• Sea Change, a 1947 painting by Jackson Pollock
• "The Sea Change", a short story by Ernest Hemingway
• Sea Change (Armstrong novel), a children's book by Richard Armstrong
• Sea Change (Powlik novel), a bio-techno-thriller by Canadian oceanographer James Powlik