Under the sea!

I find the ocean to be a beautiful, fascinating, terrifying place. A while back, while I was in a hotel room, waiting for Cory to get back from work, I was watching the Discovery channel. It was Shark Week. I don't know if any of you have watched Shark week, but every year they do Shark week, and all day, everyday that week they talk about sharks. Stuff they recently learned, things they guess, people who swim with sharks, stuff like that.

Before watching that show, the thing I was most scared of about the ocean, was being stuck out in the middle of it, and a storm coming. It's not so much the waves I would be scared of, although that is scary, but the lightning along with the waves. Being pulled under water by the wave, then having the lightning hit the water and the electricity spreading, and I would be drowning and being shocked to death.

But now, even though they aren't very common, I am now scared of shark attacks. Because these happen just on the beach. Usually by the Great White or Bull Sharks. Great whites mistake our shape and color by their normal food, seals, and attack. They usually wont eat us, after biting us, they realize we aren't seals, and spit us out. But by then it is normally too late. Great Whites are so huge and so strong, when you see a picture of it (or if you get the chance of seeing one in real life without dying) they look so fake. Seeing a picture of them makes me laugh, because they don't look real. Dont you think? They look like a sea monster someone in the 1920's made up, but I'm positive, if I saw one in real life, I would not be laughing.

Bull sharks are what I'm really scared of. They have the highest level of testosterone out of all other animals on Earth. Which means, they attack just to attack. Even worse, they can live in fresh water and salt water. So even rivers aren't safe. These sharks usually wont eat humans, but they will make sure not to leave them alive. They are very territorial, so if you get too close to his purple bubble, you live long to say sorry.

I am not scared of all sharks, I would love to dive with nurse sharks, and even reef sharks, with the proper armor. While watching shark week, it showed this guy who was doing a study on putting sharks "to sleep" and after nurse sharks, he dived with reef sharks. I couldn't help but think the sharks were so cute! He would pet their noses, and the shark would go upside down and just sink like it was asleep. And the sharks were all trying to get pet all at the same time. They would nudge the other sharks out of the way so they could get their noses scratched. They were like little puppies with really sharp teeth.

So after shark week, I thought that the sharks were the only thing I really needed to worry about when it came to the ocean, other than drowning. But then I watch the show "Natures Deadliest". (I really should stop watching shows that make me not want to step out of my room) In this show they showed the most deadliest animals/incests on earth. And there were a lot more ways to die in the ocean, then just sharks and drowning. I know a lot of you are reading this, think that I'm stupid by not knowing this before, but I never gave it much thought. Anyway, in the show, along with the sharks, there was this Jelly fish that after being stung, it kills in 2 minutes. If any of you have seen the movie 7 pounds with Will Smith, The Jelly fish he has, that is what I'm talking about. You can live, but you need someone doing CPR to you until the poison runs it's course, and that could take up to 10 minutes, and even if you live, you will be in intense pain for weeks after. So crazy, something that doesn't even have a brain can kill you in 2 minutes.

Another Jelly fish, found mostly near Africa is no bigger than the tip of your pinky, that includes the tentacles. When this little guys stings you, you cant even feel it, so the 2 minutes before you are in real danger, you don't use wisely, because you have no idea you have been stung. The jelly fish paralyzes you, and while you are in the ocean, that is not good. You have no time to call for help, and there is no cure. Even doing CPR does no good. Something so tiny, but so deadly.

On the beaches in Brazil is a snail that hides in a beautiful, bright orange and white shell. When found, people usually give them as gifts to their loved ones, not realizing that the thing living in the shell kills, and there is no cure. Like the tiny jelly fish, the snail paralyses you. It has a stinger like a bee, pokes you, and there is no warning. Immediately, you are paralysed. And there is nothing anyone can do. you lay there until the poison goes to your heart and kills you.

Have you heard of the stone fish? this evil thing looks and feels like a stone, but if you step on it, it pokes you with their fin, and you have 10 hours of excruciating pain. Now I don't really know if they are deadly, I've heard that they are, but I also heard that they aren't, that they just make you wish you were dead. But still, deadly or not, ouch.

But other than those deadly things, the Ocean is so beautiful! So colorful, so big! I find it fascinating that we know more about the moon than we do about the ocean. And how fast it changes. I'm just at awe when I think of it. How many creatures live in the ocean that we don't even know about, how amazing! I'm so torn with my fear of the ocean, and my want to be in it, to explore it. What an amazing world our Heavenly Father created!

Sorry if I freaked you out, or surfaced fears you have never had.....But just the same, thanks for reading. Stay tuned, and remember, choose the right!