scene 2

For scene two i took a image of the pacific ocean from google maps.

I then drew a large plane with 200 segments both width and length and applied the image of the pacific ocean.

Using editable poly, move tool and soft selection i was able to bump up the land like so:

 

I then added the clouds using another plane:

I then turned my attention to the arrows.  I drew another plane and converted it to editable poly.  I went into vertex mode and selected the followings:

Using the move tool i created this: