By Hannah Bassett
While I and my fellow ocean-lovers might fancy ourselves ‘sea people’ or possibly ‘mermen and merwomen’ – on account of our penchants for surfing, scuba diving, sailing, or the like – humans are a terrestrial species. Right?
While that is a fact that few would argue against, that is exactly what I intend to do here.
Today, almost half of the world’s population lives in coastal areas[i] and urbanization is pushing even more people coastward.[ii]  As millions of people flock to coastal cities and towns, it becomes evermore important to question the common, but misguided association of humans with land and disassociation with oceans and seas.