12,000 feet

So I'm from Hawaii, and this summer I went out on a fishing boat, because my uncle knew the captain. It was probably 80 degrees that day and we had already been out for about 2 hours and hadn't caught anything. We still a few miles out when the captain stopped the boat and we all hopped out. I'd brought my goggles with me so I put them on and was completely stunned by what I saw. When you looked away from the boat, the color of the water wasn't blue, the WORLD was blue. It was the only thing around to look at. None of the pictures on here quite capture what it's like in person. I was mesmerized by it, abd just kept staring down. Every once and a while, I'd see something glittering, like a scale shining in the sun as it moves, but it was hard to gage how far down it was, might have been right below us.So we all get back in, and the captain tells us that we were swimming in 12,000 feet of water. That didn't really hit all of us until we looked up at the sky. If the ground was the bottom of the sea, we were swimming 12,000 feet in the sky, but the difference is, from that height in the sky, you can see everything below you, but at that height in the sea, you can't see anything below you, and who knows what could have been underneath us, watching us.