Sex In The Ocean

Saw the interview of Sylvia Earle, the woman who is almost half fish, with her love, dedication and the most part of her waking life deep down in the ocean. She is marine biologist, defender of the see and the aquatic kingdom, with an impressive record of 6000 hours immersion in the sea credited, at 1000 meter in depth. Now at the age of 71 (Gibbstown, New Jersey, 1935) she is just as active as ever. She was carrying this monumental book, her Ocean, an illustrated atlas of the extension of the world, just published by the of National Geographic Society, of which she is veteran resident explorer. When the interviewer looked interested at her necklace on which hung a gold dolphin, she opened up her blouse slightly, pulling it out to show him. He joked that he almost expected to see scales on her chest, she laughed, delighted like a little girl. It was a gift from the Indians of Vancouver. Her skin was very fine and smooth, not at all expected of a life of sun and salt. She displayed great humour, expressive, vital, and very passionate on the subject of marine life and environment. The many stories she told about the sea life, as well as her own life in the sea, are all fascinating, but several of them especially interesting and informative, like some of the many variety of octopuses which can change colour when approached by other sea animals, or in her case, a diver. It began to display these beautiful colours like a rainbow forming. It allowed her to swim right along him, and looked at her often as if wishing to communicate with her, or see if she was impressed by his display. The interviewer then came up with a question about his curiosity of sex under water of these varied residents. She gave some extraordinary examples. For instance, the longest penis in the animal kingdom is not the horse, the elephant, nor human, but a type of sea barnacle, whose sex organ is longer than the full length of his body!! That the tilapia fertilises by the mouth. Oral sex to reproduce? Or the wedlock of tentacles of, precisely, the octopus. When questioned about danger for her in the sea, she firmly declared that it's more dangerous travelling in a car than diving deep down in the sea. Danger moments in the ocean are usually due to matters of mechanical error or failure of regulators. People are not figured in the daily menu of even shark's, except when the creature is provoked or threatened. She concluded by saying that the most dangerous species are us humans, the worst predators. We are killing the ocean for what we keep taking out of it, and what we continuously putting in it.   Tags:shark,octopus,ocean

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