The Ocean Is Too Crowded
This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine.
The ocean feels infinite. If you were to start swimming from shore, it’s easy to believe—fitness and oxygen aside—that you could continue forever. That’s a much different experience from overland travel, where mountains, rivers, and six-lane highways buzzing with traffic thwart easy passage.
It’s equally easy to believe that fish and other highly mobile marine creatures experience the ocean in an unrestrained fashion.