This could also be titled "snork=
\neling part 2." … <\/p>\n
We had another opportunity to go =
\non a snorkeling adventure this past weekend. In part, I wondered if it =
\nwould seem anticlimactic in any way or carry a sense of "I've d=
\none this already." I needn't have worried.<\/p>\n
This trip = And, all= After returning I= The English language Wiktionary defi= All I could think about was = Then, after a little while we boarded the boat and we=
\nwas on the same boat but we stopped and went into the water at two diffe=
\nrent places. The first place we stopped was just over little bit from t=
\nhe first time we went snorkeling<\/a>. =
\n Even though so close<\/a>, the ocean viewed was oh so much d=
\nifferent. Most of all, we were just at the outer edge of the island gro=
\nups. That is, at one point we were swimming at the edge of the sea<\/a> — the ocean itself,=
\n the big puddle, the whole salt water body that stretches to the Bering =
\nStrait, the Panama Canal, and the Straits of Magellan.<\/p>\n
\n I could think was "wow." All I could see was a swarm of fish=
\n that extended to the limit of the visibility … maybe a couple of doze=
\nn yards. The word that thundered into my consciousness was teem=
\ning<\/strong>. There were just that many fish. I couldn't help but =
\nthink of the Biblical description of how full the oceans are of fish:
Psalm 104:24-25<\/a> (NIV)<\/p>\n\nHow many are your works, Lord!\n In wisdom you made them all;\n the earth is full of your creatures.\nThere is the sea, vast and spacious,\n teeming with creatures beyond number=E2=80=94\n living things both large and small.<\/pre>\n
\n wanted to get a handle on what, exactly, the word teeming<\/stro=\nng> means so I decided to cross reference it with some other languages. =
\n Using Wiktionary and the ability to grasp how speakers of other languag=
\nes view this English word, I came up with the following. The Polish dic=
\ntionary gives this definition: swarm (of something), abundance (in somet=
\nhing). The Malagasy dictionary gives the translations 1. To be stocked t=
\no overflowing or 2. To be prolific; to abound. The French dictionary us=
\nes the word "throng." Also, as a colloquialism both the Fren=
\nch and Japanese dictionary make reference to the English phrase "ra=
\nining cats and dogs."<\/p>\n
\nnes teeming as "Abundantly filled with especially living things.&qu=
\not; That pretty well says it all.<\/p>\n
\nthoughts along the following lines. I've seen what the application =
\nof technology does to the production of foodstuffs in the soil of the Am=
\nerican midwest. Imagine the impact of several decades of targeting the =
\ndevelopment of food production to the oceans of the world! I am not<\/span> talking about senseless, w=
\nanton overfishing and killing off of species. I am talking about sustai=
\nnable, large scale development of fisheries production for the purpose o=
\nf growing food. The oceans of this planet seem to me to have a lot of p=
\notential.<\/p>\n
\nnt back to the same place as we went snorkeling on our first trip. It d=
\nid look much the same as our first visit, but not at all mundane or bori=
\nng. There were so many varieties of fishes it is difficult to even talk=
\n of them all. I think I really like the purple<\/a> ones and=
\n the blue<\/a> ones.<\/p>\n