Lunoblog

Ancient civilizations like the Philistines and the Babylonians had worshipped fishtailed gods, several stories on underwater creatures half human half fish have survived, manifesting themselves in written parchments or artworks from the Byzantine empire to the Romans. We as “Homo Industrialis” dismiss all these stories as myth and somewhat challenge the intelligence of earlier civilizations for believing in such childish stories. But what if?

We have now freedivers diving to depth to 113 meters (371 ft) holding their breath for over 10 minutes. With the Lunocet we will have humans cruising in open water at speeds only marine mammals could achieve. The breaching is just a matter of time, imagine that day where as you walk on the beach, you watch in the surf a  ”pod” of human playing in the water as a pod of dolphin approach them to invite them into their water games.

We are born in water, 66 percent of our body is composed of water, and our blue planet? 70 percent of it is covered with water (probably more in the decades to come).  In the US alone more than 50 percent of the population live right by the Ocean. We are attracted to it yet we can’t define why. The Lunosapien could really well be the next phase in human evolution. Remarkable books that inspired this reflection on the liquid world are: “Underworld” by Graham Hancock and “Homo Delphinus” by Jacques Mayol.  It is not about finding the right answers but rather asking the right questions.

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Right now there are a few books on our shelf. A lot on hydrodynamics but the one that is following us in the lunobag to the aquabatics sessions in the lagoon these days is “Song for the Blue Ocean” by Carl Safina. Why? Because we (as Lunosapiens) are a product of our environment and our environment is the the world’s ocean. Carl Safina not only gives us a good idea of the state of our fisheries worldwide (not too glamourous) but makes us travel from the eastern seaboard of the US and Canada to the Indo Pacific. His vivid descriptions gets us into the backseat of a piper cub tracking schools of tuna listening to an old “spotter” pilot lamenting on the state of fisheries in the gulf of Maine. What makes this environmentalist book stand apart from the bunch is that it stays away from theory and brings some hands on facts to the table. It is a harsh reality that Safina exposes us to, but he gives it an adventurous approach that empowers us to take action. A great read indeed! Find it here.