Everything in the ocean is food. Unless you’re a pod of orcas there’s no reason to be in it.
Franklin Graham said it on one of his commercials. “The lion will lay down with the lamb”.
I’ll stay on the beach.
I used to be an avid body surfer. I’m a strong swimmer (swim teacher, former deep water guard, guard trainer, etc.) so I felt I was pretty safe in the ocean... until an undertow nearly swept me out into the atlantic.
I kept my wits about me, swam crosswise to get out of the current, and then, like an idiot, took one final wave back into shore, head in the barrel the entire time. It was glorious.
But, as I walked back to where my daughter and I had put our stuff, I realized, I had too much to lose to keep it up.
I swim in an olympic pool nearby, and when I go to the beach, I sit under a lovely umbrella and listen to my audiobooks.
No more open water for me.