“Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither”. We continuously travel vast amounts of water, excitingly, while fully aware of the unknowns this water covers. Human curiosity knows no bounds as we traverse something we’ve barely comprehended. Everyone becomes distracted by the blue beautiful waves being penetrated by sunlight, that they become unconscious that they are right above a landmine. The sea is too dangerous. We’ve never had any species that can be given the term a “monster”, but the sea is where we can find the first “monster”.
Recently my mom went on a cruise. This wasn't her first time as she’d gone several times. Her trip would usually last on the ocean 2-5 days. She would always point out how nice the ocean looked and how it felt being on the cruise and outside away from land. Last week she sent me a picture of a turquoise baby shark with the mother shark circling near the cruise. She and the audience thought it was cute, but when I looked at the picture, all it screamed was danger. Sharks are classified as one of the most dangerous species in the sea yet it's only in the 9% margin of the species that are in the sea that we’ve been able to classify. There’s still around 91% of sea species that are unclassified. How can we proudly say sharks are one of the top of the food chain? How can we excitingly explore unknown waters when we are right above unknown dangers.
So far we’ve only explored 5% of the world’s ocean. Meaning that 95% of the ocean is unknown to us yet we still go out on cruise’s and boat rides as well as beaches. Only 9% of the ocean's species has been identified as well. The ocean is too dangerous to carelessly explore.