The primary reason why this cannot be the case is that water is always going to be level no matter the size of the body of water.

We observe water in this manner in a glass, a bowl, a bucket, a pond, a pool and a lake.

Yet, somehow in our imaginations we've managed to convince ourselves that when it comes to oceans, the behaviour of water somehow defies everything else we observe. They even try explain away observations across lakes with refraction and mirages.

Trying to fathom the idea that we would all be flung across the air into the nearest solid object at a 1,000 miles if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning is a really comical concept.