After eight decades of life living near, in, on,and under the ocean I know that I am a marine mammal and can identify my physiology, my metabolism, my ability to free flood without injury in the depths of the sea, and my ability to sustain life from the energy animal mineral resources of the sea with the polar bear, the whale, the seal, the propoise. the dolphin, the penguin and many other sea creatures. Homo sapiens believes that many of these mammals are threatended with extinsion and are oblivious to the fact that the most endangered species is thee human as a marine mammal.
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All humans are born as marine mammals. When the male sperm fertilizes the female egg a new life starts in a completely fluid medium.
The fertilized cell nourished by the egg yoke multiplies inside a membrane known as the placenta.
Soon arteries and veins lymphatic vessls from the mother enter the placenta through an umbilical chored
furnishing the blood and the oxygen required for the construction of the many – faceted human machine body parts
known as the embryo.. The instructions for the diversification of the cells and the organization and growt of
the embryo are embodied in the rapidly multiplying DNA cells (long chain molecules each having more
than 3 billion protein bases. Soon a stalk is formed which is attached to the embryo and the placenta and soon becomes the umbilical chord which feeds the life fluids of the mother to the embryo an carries the waste products away. When the lungs are formed they are flooded with amniotic fluid. They may or may not feed oxygen to the embryo. Humanities first insights into this flooded lung process came from experiments at Duke University sponsored in part by the Office of Naval Research and the Navy Special Projects Office. As Chief Scientist of the latter Office my curiosity was piqued for the first time at age 34 with respect to the fluid origin of life. Thus the embryo grows fully fluidized until a complete infant is manufactured and the birth process begins. Until the umbilical chord is severed the infants life support depends on the umbilical chord. Many mothers now have their infant births take place under water because they believe that the shock of birth is minimized. But we all know that as soon as the chord is severed the infant is held up by the feet by the midwife and spanked and in that baby’s first cry the lungs are emptied of fluid and life support shifts
to the terrestrial atmosphere. The infant can now drown and humanity now presumes that the human is a terrestrial mammal.
Not so fast, whales can drown, porpoises can drown, seals can drown, polar bears can drown.
Yes indeed these mammals are all air breathers and must come up for, or be immersed in air or die.
Well say you, that is a sophistry, for all intents and purposes the human does not walk on water but on land,
the human eats and sleeps and has his/her being in a land environment. Or so I thought until (through a bureaucratic mstake
I was designated as Project Manager of SeaLab II SeaLab III. I was taking over from George Bond
Walter Mazzone and Robert Barth the command of a project designed for humans to live and work and have their being
submerged for months at a time in the ocean depths at depths of 100, then 200, then 600 feet and
eventually more than 1000 feet.
