🚿(under)water

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke

collection inspired by sharks 🦈

“It is easier to swim in the sea than in a bathtub.”

Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think

Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel

Braud and his colleagues demonstrated that human thoughts can affect the direction in which fish swim,

Lynne McTaggart • The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

what?

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

Jeff Mohr • What is complexity?

Sharks are essentially living fossils, having glided through the Earth’s oceans for over 400 million years already. They have outlasted the dinosaurs and have survived mass extinction events to become one of the most successful and enduring groups of animals on the planet.

Amie Pearce • The evolution of sharks

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Amie Pearce • What is bubble net feeding?

Photo by SR3.

Six months ago, I looked up how to humanely euthanize a sick fish on Reddit. I found a method and now my fish is dead.

Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes.

The algorithm must think I’m a fish mass murderer. It won’t stop.

dustin curtis • Tweet

“whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal”

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Amie Pearce • The power of nature’s sonar

“Sound is the vocabulary of nature”_ Pierre Schaeffer