Jeep Parts Melbourne : The Ocean's Pull

With the Costa Concordia running aground off the coast of Italy and attracting much international news coverage in the process; and the 1997 movie Titanic being re-released this year in 3D; it seems disasters at sea fascinate us, despite the human tragedy that is inevitable. What is it in human psychology that seems to draw us to oceanic tragedies?

Seafaring has always attracted more than its fair share of public interest, and has always been one of mankind's more dangerous pursuits. While the passengers on a modern cruise ship (or even those on a cruise ship in 1912) should ever expect to be subject to such terror, those who took to sea in earlier times, to traverse the world's vast oceans on wooden sailing boats, were taking a much bigger risk. Even those who did not travel far from the shore, but sailed and fished near the coast, were putting themselves in considerable danger. Storms, uncharted waters, unseen rocks, ice, and lack of food and water could all put an end to a sailor's life, or at least make it pretty uncomfortable.

On the early transportation ships that sailed into Port Jackson from Britain, the death rate was as high as one-third. Of course, that was partly due to ill treatment, but it does illustrate the difficulties faced by seafarers stuck on a ship in close quarters for months on end. Visit the graveyards of seafaring towns around the world, and you'll see the story of many a young man's death etched on their gravestones.

Someone setting off to sea in times past might well not return, and that created a culture of prayer and folklore around ocean going and its dangers. Take the famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and its well-known lines:

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

These lines illustrate the danger of being surrounded constantly by an ocean, on a ship far from land without any support at hand. These kinds of poems and stories are a powerful reminder to modern people that even though we might think we can now conquer the sea safely, its unalterable power means it can never really be defeated.

If that puts you off getting out on the water for life, don't worry. You can have plenty of adventures on dry land. Drive, rather than sail, off into the sunset in an SUV in Melbourne. Jeep SUVs Melbourne are packed with safety features to keep you safe while you enjoy the thrill of an adventure, such as anti-lock braking systems (ABS) and all-speed traction control (ASTC). Similar features can be found on Dodge and Chrysler Melbourne models.

We all have an urge within us to explore, but some ways of satisfying that urge are safer than others. Dry land and a comfortable SUV together make a good starting point. 

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