Explosions at Sea

I was so saddened when I heard that a ship had been blown up in the Indian Ocean by the Kenya Navy as a result of the president’s directive, after it had been found with drugs, in August 2014. It had 373.8Kgs of heroin valued at Kes. 1.3billion. Another yacht, found with 7.6Kgs of heroin valued at Kes.22 million, was also blown up in 2015.This was done 30km from the shore, in an effort to demonstrate that Kenya was against drug trafficking.

To this day in October 2016, I try to imagine the situation in which the ocean creatures found themselves in. They were definitely caught off-guard by the explosions. The deafening blast must have thrown them into confusion. I could picture them screaming and scampering for safety. They immediately felt that they were under attack. To them, this might have felt like a terrorist attack. Without a doubt, they must have been scared. The metals must have gone tumbling down, slicing some of them into pieces, crushing the heads of others while squeezing life out of other creatures at the bottom of the ocean as they sank.