I love you, I won't kill you

The kelp forests in the waters off Anacapa Island are almost indistinguishable from those found throughout the Pacific coast.It's just that this kelp forest off the coast of California is taller, sturdier or more spectacular.

It is these "seaweed trees" that grow about 3-15 meters in height and are as thick as human legs, which constitute the magnificent underwater forest.How can such a wonderful and majestic underwater scene not attract curious human tourists and marine "residents" to explore the unknown world.

Julie grabbed Amanda's hand and shook it twice, pointing to a target in the sea area on the right.Amanda took advantage of the opportunity to look over, and it turned out that a spotted seal swam over from left to right, and swam unimpeded into the kelp forest ahead.

After the two people floating outside the forest looked at each other, they swung their flippers and swam in along the direction the seal was heading.After swimming into the forest, Amanda realized that the scenery here was simply amazing.

Julie next to her was also curiously admiring these thick, strong, and very tall "seaweed trees". While admiring them, she suddenly had the idea of ​​screaming.It seems that I forgot something or failed to bring something with me in time.

"Damn it, why did I forget to bring a helmet-mounted camcorder!? Such a beautiful scene should be photographed and uploaded to the YouTube website. Hey, what a pity." Julie called out secretly.

At the same time, Amanda was thinking about such a thing, "The seals can come and go freely here, but we can't. It's better to get out of here without any danger."

Afterwards, Julie, who was still in shock, asked Amanda what kind of shark they encountered.Amanda's major is not marine zoology, so she can only guess that what the two of them encountered might be a tiger shark or a great blue shark.

The two had been underwater for 20 minutes at a depth of 100 feet (30.48 meters) when the diving gauges showed less than 45 percent of the gas in the tank.After looking at the instrument, Amanda immediately swam up to Julie, stretched out her right hand and clenched her thumb upwards.

"Going ashore so soon?" Julie thought, looking down at the dive gauge.

The longer you stay in the kelp forest, the more dangerous it will be. Amanda did not hesitate to pull Julie to swim quickly in the direction of entry.And the spotted seal was of course much faster in the sea than the two of them, and it still swam out of the seaweed forest in an instant leisurely.

Just as the seals had just swam out of the kelp forest, a very fast tiger shark came out of nowhere.When the ferocious tiger shark, who is a master predator of the sea, meets the fat, round and fleshy spotted seal, it announces to other "residents" of the seabed, "This is my food! It will never leave here alive!" "

In the kelp forest five or six meters behind the spotted seal, Amanda and the others didn't know about the underwater "massacre" outside the forest.When the two quickly swam to the edge of the forest, the life-and-death chase under the sea filled with the smell of bloody massacre was in full swing.

The tiger shark, a large shark with pronounced fangs, is considered dangerous. With a length of 5 meters and a body weighing 700 kilograms, it can easily attack humans playing in shallow sea areas.In human history, tiger sharks have a record of non-lethal attacks on humans.

Regardless of whether this ferocious guy will attack humans or not, the most important thing to do right now is to escape from this dangerous sea area.If it is on land, Amanda will definitely protect Julie with expressions, words or actions.Now, the only thing she can do is sign language.

"Quiet!" This was the first sign she made to Julie.

"There!" This was the second sign she made to Julie.

Before Julie understood the meaning of the sign language, of course she had seen the tiger shark chasing the seal outside the forest.The fear of facing great danger made her want to shout a few times, but her mouth was blocked by a respirator.

She couldn't communicate with Amanda in words, and she didn't know what sign language to use to express "shark" or "danger".Just floating underwater like this, countless terrifying scenes flashed through my mind instantly.

When the tiger shark managed to catch up with the seal, it opened its jaws wide and took the seal in its mouth with one gulp.Spit it out, crunch it, spit it out and crunch it again, the sharp knife-like teeth have already torn a fat seal to pieces.

"Retreat!" Amanda put her right arm straight down, clenched her fist and swung it backwards.

"What? God, what are you talking about?" Julie didn't learn this sign language before going into the water.So her first thought was to take off the respirator and say the words as fast as she could.

Amanda snapped Julie's hand toward the respirator and shook her head, pointing to the other side of the kelp forest.This time Julie understood what she meant, and guessed secretly, "God! Go in that direction, right?"

"Retreat" is the best way to deal with danger, especially when facing a powerful enemy.Although the two could do a dying struggle with a knife on their legs, Amanda definitely didn't want to watch Julie die, or Julie watch herself being bitten into pieces by a shark.

When other tourists had already returned to the boat, the middle-aged administrator still did not see the two young girls surfaced.Nervously looking back and forth at the dive gauge on his wrist, he knew that time was running out.

"FK!" After cursing in a low voice, he said to another administrator, "Damn it, God! Put on the equipment for me!!"

"Sir, you go find them yourself? No, I'll go!" When the young administrator finished speaking, he had already put the compressed air bottle on his back, and was holding a respirator ready to put it into his mouth.

The blood of the spotted seal gradually dissipated in the sea water, and a piece of skin and flesh connected to the right forelimb was slowly floating in the sea water mixed with blood.Suddenly, a huge mouth with some flesh and blood stuck to its teeth had to swallow this piece of flesh from back to front.

Amanda was shocked to see the scene behind her. This was the first time in her life that she saw a live shark preying scene.He pushed Julie, who was floating up beside him, and kept gesturing to her to go up.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" Julie struggled to float to the surface of the sea above her head.

"Okay, the shark shouldn't notice us!" Amanda kept looking back at the bottom of the sea, thinking.

"Wow...!" A human head wearing a diving suit suddenly appeared on the sea.Then, a second person's head appeared beside her.

"Honey, are you alright? I was scared to death just now!" Julie took off her respirator, and yelled, swimming towards Amanda beside her.

"Okay, it's all right. Look, don't we have to go back to the sea safely?" Amanda patted Julie who was hugging her, and said softly.

"No, it's only safe to go back to shore! Where is the boat that will pick us up?" Julie called, looking back and forth at the sea level.

"There! God, how did we swim so far?" Julie called, pointing in the direction of the boat.

"They should be able to see us! Now, just shout!" Amanda stretched her arms into the air.

"Hey!! We're here!" Julie and Amanda yelled almost simultaneously.

When he was rescued on board, other tourists and managers surrounded him.The middle-aged man asked nervously, "Are you all right?"

While putting the air bottle on the boat, Amanda replied relaxedly, "It's okay, we're fine."

A female tourist put her hand on Julie's arm in concern, "Hey, did you have an accident down there?"

Julie wiped the sea water from her face, opened her mouth and shouted, "Yeah. God, do you know what happened to us?"

Amanda quietly nudged Julie with her elbow, and then said, "Oh, I don't think it's okay. It's just that a few seaweeds accidentally grabbed our feet. Maybe they live very lonely on the bottom of the sea."

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