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Mermaid Speech

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While I am giving this speech, please have an open mind and be willing to change your opinion. I am going to tell you about why I think mermaids are real. This may take a lot of explaining for you to understand my thoughts. By keeping an open mind about others opinions, it will help you discover more than you expected. First I am going to give you some facts. According to National Ocean Service, to this date we have discovered under five percent of the ocean. The ocean covers over 70 percent of Earth’s surface. With those facts I think that there is still a lot to be discovered in the ocean that we have not found yet. Possibly there are mermaids living in the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean that we have not been to. Next I am going …show more content…

They developed webbed hands that were used to help swim to catch fish which was one of their few food sources they had to live off of. Eventually they had to move into the water if they wanted to survive. This stage is what pushed them to become fully dependent on the ocean and its resources. The first evidence scientists had was while listening to a recording of the ocean to study whales when they heard a sound they had never heard before. They kept listening and then heard dolphin noises and this unknown species communicating with them. At that point they initially thought it was another species of dolphins but they thought it was suspicious that they had not seen them yet. At this point they only had acoustic evidence of mermaids. Once they moved into the ocean they were thought to have grown spike type things to defend themselves. They were located around their rib area. It looks almost like a stingray barb which is like a blade of a knife. Going off from this, there was a great white shark killed near where they were recording for their whale study. Once the people dissected the shark they found unusual parts which looked like dolphin and also human. Someone then examined the shark and found what was thought to be a stingray barb, but great white sharks don’t eat stingrays which made them want to investigate

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