I like the sea a lot. I believe it had a great influence on my life. As a child, I spent almost all my summer holidays in a small town called Cesme in Turkey. It's located near the Aegean Sea, which is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, located between the Greece and Turkey. One thing my younger brother and I liked most about these holidays was taking our mask and snorkel, and exploring the magnificent world beneath the sea.

A couple of days after my 17th birthday, it was one of those holidays again. One day, in one of our routine explorations of the coastline, we saw what we believed was the head of a moray eel under a long and shallow rock at the bottom of the sea. It was about 150 feet offshore and the depth was about 10 feet. Moray eels are known to have very...