I sea air for improvement.
30. Apr 2026,
It has a taste. Usually salty. It opens up the airways that a moment ago seemed thoroughly stuffed up. Sea air is the smell of wide open spaces. Of freedom. And of ever more adventure.
The salty soup of the oceans has much to hide. Especially beneath the shallow surface, the world in the darkness of the deep seems largely undiscovered. In a world without light, but with plenty of water pressure, the oddest creatures evolved over millions of years. Some of these deep-sea beings look as though a creator was having a laugh. The ocean is a branch office running on genuine algae humour.
Anyone who happens to wander — or drift — into the infamous Mariana Trench will find their yet-to-be-dreamed nightmares filled with monsters of the peculiar sort. Even H.R. Giger, the man who invented the Alien, would be frightened at the sight of these creatures. The aliens of the deep don't exactly need to win a beauty pageant. In their world, visibility itself is an unknown phenomenon. These beings rely on the darkness and the shelter it provides. Anyone who has ever caught a glimpse of one of these creatures will understand their loathing of the spotlight.
These beings live in their damp world in blissful ease. No engine-racket from enormous tankers disturbs their daily routine. Plastic waste is present only in micro-doses. Life-threatening situations from predators are probably rare, since those can't even detect their prey. No idea how the whole eat-and-be-eaten system down there is supposed to work at all. Are the inhabitants of the deep subjected to a random diet? Whoever happens to get something edible in front of their mouth-opening gets fed. The others stare — no — swim into the void.
Planet Earth doesn't just have a surface; it has real depth. And funnily enough, we think we know the blue planet inside and out. Yet here we sit on a sphere, in whose depths exists a world that is largely unknown to us.
Long live evolution.
