Sunday, October 5, 2008
The Unkown Ocean
As i was flipping through channels while watching tv, i stopped at my favorite station. the Discovery Channel. the show that was playing was about a collosal squid. i have wanted to be a marine biologsit since i was a kid so natural i took notice. the squid happened to be about 20 feet long and had am eye with a diameter of 10 inches. these animals are very rare and only one living has ever been caught on camera. this amazed me. i guess my point is not just about a squid but instead about the unknown. the ocean is huge and home to many different types of living organisms. but as human i dont believe that we have even gotten close to classifying the different types of animals that reside in the deep. for all we know these colassal squids could be very common in an area but we may never discover this because the ocean is so vast. i feel that we as humans should be discovering these areas and finding out new groundbreaking information everyday because since the earth has so much more water then land, who knows maybe some day we will be trying to live at the bottom of the ocean instead of mars. on a different note i have also become very interested in the Challenger deep. this is the deepest spot in the ocean. the trench goes down 7 miles. right now it would be impossible to travel to these depths because of the pressure but i feel that once we get the the technology to go down there we will see a different world. for all we know there could be 100 ft. squids and animals that resemble those of prehistoric times. and maybe living down there could be the gigantic megladon shark that is said to be extinct andt would consider even the great white shark to be a bite size snack.
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I completely agree Brian. I love watching those shows about the ocean, it really makes you feel small knowing that the land you stand on doesn't even cover half the earth. I really feel we should travel deep into the ocean to discover these secrets. Who knows, maybe we will discover a new means for energy in the deep. I also think that int he deep there will be creatures of epic proportion. I know that the giant squid is huge and I wonder how big fish are at an even deeper part of the ocean.
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