The Fishy Connection

Has it ever occurred to you there that there may be a parallel upside down universe under the sea? Just think about it, a place populated by creatures that have gills instead of lungs, flippers and fins instead of hands and feet, cartilage instead of bone.

To the best of my knowledge the creatures that inhabit the deep have brains and some reasoning capacity too. Otherwise how would you explain the instinctive nature that finds them located at the best food sources for their breed and where to find the optimal breeding conditions for their kind just like us humans on earth!!

The sea is where creatures swim on flows of warm or cold currents, and where the water could be as cold as ice or as warm as tea depending on your location in an atmosphere rich in oxygen the closer you get to the ocean surface. On earth our birds soar on currents of warm or cold air during their migrations or when hunting, and where the temperatures are freezing at the poles and are steamy at the tropics and where the oxygen is the best at sea level and gets less and less the higher you get.

The deep is a place where it is inky black the further down you go and where the pressures exerted on an object are great enough to squash steel encased vessels. A place so hostile to humans that they would not survive without protective clothing and breathing apparatus. On earth the creatures of the sea have to be equipped with breathing apparatus to survive if at all they ventured there.

This is a place where the hunters - the sharks, dolphins and other fish - and the hunted co-exist in an uneasy hide and seek game and where flight or fight as a defense mechanism is well embodied in many creatures and is comparable to any of the animals of the Maasai Mara.

Here lurk creatures of the night terrifying to other creatures of the deep and where death stalks your every move like in the deep, dark shadows of downtown Nairobi, Johannesburg or Moscow at night. A place where venomous sea snakes co-exist with the deadly chameleon in the name of stone fish and where the graceful but deadly manta ray wings its way effortlessly as if in surreal flight. A place where the carnivorous cats of the sea, the sharks and the killer whale, prey on the weaker and smaller fish and conversely a place where the very largest elephant of the animal species the vegetarian sperm whale feeds on nothing but tiny plankton.

A place where the dolphin rules supreme in the deep through his superior communications vocabulary of clicks and bursts of ultrasonic sound. A place where the sea horse is bi-sexual and where the male of this creature, in a role reversal unknown to man, is the one that becomes pregnant.

A place with beautiful homes and apartments for the creatures in the sea by way of the coral reefs and gardens as well as a place with dense jungles of kelp and other sea plants home to the sea otter and other shy fish species. A place where there are thousands of undiscovered plant and animal life, as is the case in the great Amazon River system. A place where there are undersea deserts as devoid of life as our very own Sahara Desert and where underwater rivers form swift moving currents waiting to trap the unwary diver and send them to their Waterloo as also a place with mountain ranges and mountains higher than Mount Everest and as large as the great Himalayas range.

A place full of dark anonymous creatures with voracious appetites and uncanny stealth waiting to spring on the unsuspecting victim in the blink of an eye. The sea is where you get the Salt water turtles & salt water crocodiles alike in so many respects to their air breathing cousins the tortoise, Nile crocodile and Monitor lizards as well as where the camouflage adopted by the octopus is comparable to that of the land dwelling chameleon. This is a place where undersea volcanoes and earthquakes reek as much havoc as if the same phenomenon occurred in Tokyo or Los Angeles.

The parallels to our own earthly world is startling but true given the extreme conditions that each views of the others world. Imagine if you may being a fish and cast out on dry land and then you may see where I am going with this analogy or the contrary, you a human being consigned to the sea for all eternity!

Fishy business this but if you let your imagination run away, you will see that there is order in what appears to be a jumbled up watery universe under the deep blue sea.

After all being blessed with a superior intellect means that you are able to visualize what may not be the obvious!!