With countless amounts of shark attacks, jellyfish stings and close calls with many sea animals it is apparent who the ocean belongs to.
Living in South Florida usually means that our free time revolves somewhat around the sun shining for perfect beach weather. Although this is an assumption many Floridians have, does it automatically make it right for us humans to intrude on an area that we don't belong?
The ocean is the territory of sea animals. It is the place they live, breath, and reproduce. The land is the territory of us humans, it is the place we live, breath, and reproduce. Both statements are facts that couldn't be truer. Whether you believe that sea animals and humans both should stay out of each other's territories is fully your decision and one I may or may not judge you on.
Next time Florida blesses you with your picture-perfect beach weather, take advantage of it and by all means - go to the beach. And when you arrive, take your cover up off, soak in the sun, and think about the scenario you are about to be given.
Imagine...on a nice sunny afternoon you decide to go eat at your favorite lunch spot but you encounter tons of traffic on the way there. As you creep closer and closer to your destination your realize what the traffic was caused by. Oddly enough, the 45-minute traffic jam wasn't caused by the number of cars on the road or a small incident that occurred prior but there was an immense amount of sharks, stingrays, fish, and who knows what else blocking the road that you so happened to be driving on.
What would be your first thought if a situation like this actually occurred? For many, the thought of what are these sea animals possibly doing on land would be a good start.
Sounds crazy and near to impossible that this would ever happen but the thought that you would have as to what they were doing on land is the same exact thought these sea animals have when you decide it's okay to step foot into the ocean.
So why do we actually go into the ocean if it's not our home? Well, just like everything else in life, people tend to do what they believe is the norm. At the beach, the majority of beach-goers take a dive into the ocean so we believe that there is no harm in doing what everyone else is. The problem with following norms is that it can sometimes lead to unexpected problems in the future. Swimming in the ocean is a norm that has had a traumatic effect on sea animals, creatures, and surprisingly us humans.
Humans going into a territory that isn't ours is a problem within itself. Shark attacks don't just randomly happen because sharks are angry creatures that are looking to eat humans for there mid-day snack. Shark attacks happen because humans decide to take the risk and go into a territory that isn't theirs. Whether or not you get lucky that a shark isn't near is your decision but there is a huge possibility that it just so happens that the area you decided to take a swim in will be the same path that animals are going to take because they don't see a harm in exploring their territory. The same way us humans don't see a harm in exploring the land we live on.
Stay out of the ocean and sea animals will continue to stay off land.
