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The sound of the sea.

Definitely, it's the sound of the sea.

I find it really, really peaceful.

RIBBIT RIBBIT!

CLUCK! CLUCK! CLUCK!

CHIRP!

WOOF WOOF!

OINK!

MOO!

I think I have a very intimate relationship with water,

because I'm primarily composed of it.

But I do think water is one of the great...

mysteries.

The sea, that black vastness.

Coupled with your imagination of the sea,

and the fact that the sea has all these creatures

that are from other planets.

The vastness of the sea, sea monsters and dark.

You're right against it, know what I mean?

I have to say I don't rea-eally like the idea of what's below.

I find it a bit kind of like...oooh.

I think about, "How deep am I?"

Or is there gonna be kind of...

You know, because I do swim quite a way out.

I have to say, the further out, it's almost like testing myself.

"Go on, go on."

How far can you go?

You enjoy being buoyed up by it,

but, of course, with every swell

there's always a little dip at the other side.

So that's something you always have to check for and be aware of.

It's too clever for me, all that stuff.

How is water water?

It's an eternal mystery.

Every time I look at it, it just completely amazes me.

It behaves unlike any other material that we've got on the planet.

It has a property that nothing else has,

which is a form of quantum coherence.

But water seems to have a...

The quantum coherence field moves outside of the molecule

and the water can be seen to be acting as a whole.

And this is extraordinarily unusual.

I think it's a great medium.

It supports you.

It's fun.

It's a beautiful environment to be in.

So, for me, I love water.

I don't love water. I'm scared in the water.

I was scared of the sea, because it was really big.

And I was really little.

And it was just really huge.

And it was cold and it was unpredictable.

And, you know, you'd get splashed and knocked over.

And I got dumped a few times by the waves

and I didn't like that at all. Not one bit.

And it would all be in my eyes,

and, no, it wasn't very nice.

But once I'd learned to swim, I was much happier.

And now I always go swimming in the sea now.

I like swimming.

Because er...

you can lose yourself.

You can be on your own. You have more space.

It's natural, you know. It's nice. LIGHT FIZZES

When I'm swimming on my front,

I haven't still learned the technique

of tilting my head to the side and taking in a breath.

I take in a lot of water. That's the way it is. Seriously.

I drink so much water

that it is a danger to others.

Bobbing around in the sea...

I don't like bobbing around in the sea.

I used to like bobbing around in the sea,

put it that way, when we were younger.

But I don't go now, so...

I'm an excellent swimmer.

And I've got loads of badges.

And...

I've won a few competitions.

I've got lifesaving awards and all sorts of badges.

I'd like to have something

that can unfold out of your nose like a teri-scope.

Periscope.

LAUGHS Like a periscope.

So that when you went swimming, you could just shoot this periscope up.

And you could just get air the whole time, that would be great.

It'd have to be very long, though, wouldn't it?

Because if you're going 20 foot down or something...

I have a dualistic relationship with the ocean.

That I'm absolutely thrilled by and energised by it, but I'm...

..made nervous by its immensity

and its depth.

When you've been down, really deep down in the sea,

when you're diving, and then you come up too fast,

I think you get an air bubble in your head.

And it decompresses your brain.

If I go to too...

to er...too deep,

I can have a headache or, you know...

SNIFFS

That's the thing about diving, you know.

It's not as free as people think, I think.

I don't like the idea of being underwater...for too long.

About a minute is long enough for me.

As long as I can hold my breath, then I want to be out.

If you get the bends, it can be quite narcotic.

You can get a kind of narcotic effect.

You don't know which direction you're going in.

You don't know which is up or down,

or how long you've been in the water.

You can't regulate yourself any more. I think it's really dangerous.

I've had altitude sickness, which is like the opposite.

There's only a certain depth you can go to, isn't there,

without your head exploding?

I think the sensation of lying on water

and having the waves take you up and down,

is a very primal...

experience.

And it's saying to me, "You are tiny and insignificant,

"and I can sweep you away."

I've got severe motion sickness.

Ahhh.

I mean, it used to be pretty bad.

I used to puke all the time, but now it's a bit better.

And it's just not a pleasant experience for me, personally, no.

I don't like jellyfish. At all.

They frighten me.

I don't like being stung by anything.

Bees, wasps, jellyfish, any of that stuff. I don't like it.

No, there's nothing that scares me in the sea. Only the obvious.

Floaty things that shouldn't really be there, to be honest.

I love the sea and I love swimming in the sea.

I think the sea is really scary, man.

It's a whole other universe. The sea is a big t'ing.

All kind of things.

When you're in the sea, it's interesting when you dive in,

and you get in there, and you realise as a being,

the species that you are,

is you have suddenly fallen very rapidly down the food chain.

You are no longer the dominant species.

You are suddenly food.

I'm not afraid of anything, because I gave up fear.

Nothing scared me at all,

until somebody told me I should watch out for the sharks.

I'm OK with sharks.

They have such a bad...

bad erm...

reputation.

Everybody hate them, I don't know why. They are quite nice.

I just don't really like the idea of feeling fish, which is a bit dumb,

because obviously they're there.

The bit that I really hate is

when you get...

all that...like seaweed.

I suppose it is seaweed.

You know, that brown sort of, like, stuff,

like erm...

tagliatelle.

But it kind of, like, wraps itself round.

That's when I get a bit freaked out.

And I think I'd rather be in a swimming pool.

You couldn't do much, could you?

If I were attacked by a shark...

Right.

I would scream and scream.

And I'd be dead.

I don't think you could do much, could you?

It depends. If he had me by the leg, I'd be able to scream and scream.

If he had me by the throat...

They were just talking about that.

On the news, there's somebody been attacked by a shark.

A crocodile. A crocodile.

A crocodile in Australia. I'm just going now.

Ooh!

LAUGHS Sorry.

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So I do have a real phobia about the water, don't I?

Which is driving everybody mad now.

I'm quite low down in the food chain.

LAUGHS

I am.

What you have to think about is, how many things can eat me?

Loads, isn't there? And you.

I've been under a lot of pressure lately.

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