The sea practically smacks you in the face from the first note, you can smell the salt. Just about the most stunning choral scenes in any opera, this amazing double chorus which starts 2:12:25 on this vid. This performance is from Bayreuth 1955 conducted by the greatest Hans Knappertsbusch with Hermann Uhde, incomparably doomy and gloomy as the Dutchman and the unsurpassable Astrid Varnay as Senta. Mind boggling chorus and magnificent orchestra.