THE MAN AND THE SEADuring many years, the man has had a very good relationship with sea.

The sea has always attracted the man by its extension or resources.The man has developed many techniques, attitudes and knowledges that have permitted us to explore it.

One of the most important things of the sea is the navigation and with it the signals to stop the traffic, like the lighthouses.

The fishing is an activity that happens in coast zones. The work of the fisherman is one of the most difficult. The asociation of fishermen or called brotherhoods that have a pattern which usually is a man but in a place of Cadiz, called Algeciras, the pattern is a woman. She is the first woman in Andalucia.

The man is polluting the sea. The sea covers 70% of the Earth and there we can find food because in the sea a million of marine species live. In the sea there is rubbish generated by humans, plastic bags take a long time to dissolve them, the sea is starting to be a dump. Many fishes die every year because of the pollution.

In the opinion of the man, the sea is place where you can go and give freedom to all of your ideas when you have a bad day, or for the simple reason that you want to have a nice time.

There a is a poem very famous about the sea:

Free man, you will always adore the sea!The sea is your mirror, you'll contemplate your soulIn the infinite growth of the waves,And your spirit is no less bitter pit.

You are pleased by sinking in your image;You sandal them with eyes and arms, and your heartIt sometimes distracts his own rumorAt the sound of this complaint untamed and wild.

You are both dark and discreet:Man, no one has known the depths of your depths,Oh, sea, no one knows your most intimate treasures,So jealous you're to keep your secrets!

And yet these are the uncountless centuriesThat you fight without pity or remorse,Both love the carnage and death,O eternal fighters, oh, implacable brothers!

Many of the sports that humans practise in the sea are: wind surf, Kayak, canoeing, surf, skinboard, diving, sailing, acuatic ski and kitesurf. There are many more but those are the most practised at the sea.

By the pass of the years, the man have discovered a way to study the sea. This is called Oceanography. There are four kinds inside of this subject: Chemical, Physical, Biological and Geographical.

What they do with this study is to find out history of our planet, the secrets of the sea, the dynamic of the seas, the meteorology, marine sedimentology, marine pollution.... and many other more!

By: Carmen Aguilera.16.