We each enjoyed a large thermos of warm coffee as we listened in silence to the hum of the motor, the sound of the water lapping against the hull, and the gentle patter of rain on the boat's canvas cabin roof. The ocean was a bit rough but nothing dangerous. The passage out to the dive location was uneventful. Our fateful journey began when we woke to a rainy Christmas, silently got in our dive suits, and packed up our boat.
At the time, we were all in our twenties, ignorant of danger, falsely believing that we were indestructible. My diving buddies and I all lived about an hour boat ride away from the dive site and decided to spend our Christmas doing what we all loved most: diving. We were told no one had actually explored it, and we knew we had to be the first. It was curiosity and ego that led my friends and me to that cavern off the coast of Mexico. What lurks below is being polite and warning you not to come any closer. If something feels wrong as you head out to a remote dive spot not yet explored, listen. But at the very least, if there is one thing to take away from this, trust your intuition. Of course, not many people believe what I say I saw, but I beg you to give my story credence. I am writing this to warn other curious divers. After all, curiosity killed the cat and, in my case, my friends. I fear one day that we will descend a little too deep and disturb a monster, irreversibly suffering the consequences of their destructive idiosyncrasy. It is best, perhaps, to keep our lives separate, but unfortunately, curiosity is a principal aspect of human nature, and we inevitably stumble across these creatures once in a while. They hide from judgment, biding their time in isolation, unwelcoming to visitors. These spots are the most brutal frontier of our earth, giving refuge to creatures shaped in the absence of illumination, grotesque and alien. From these places, the ocean descends, filling the imperfections of our earth's surface with watery depths, not even light can penetrate. Its power destroys and shapes our land, creating jagged pillars of stone, steep cliffs, and walls of ice.
The ocean is a blanket that covers seventy percent of our earth.