Personal Narrative: Snorkeling In Hawaii

I was 11. We were on vacation in Hawaii during spring break, on the island Maui to be exact. Kaanapali is a major populated city in Maui, and that’s where we were staying. We went to the beach past Whalers village which is in Lahaina, walking distance from the marriott we stay in. It was about 8:30 in the morning (Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone) (11:30 PST). And we decided to go snorkeling. And I was not very excited. I get extremely claustrophobic very easily. Sitting in my room sometimes makes me claustrophobic, so putting those snorkeling goggles on did not make me to thrilled. “Up to 5% of the US general population may suffer from claustrophobia in some form, including mild versions of this phobia.” It says on https://healthresearchfunding.org/22-fascinating-claustrophobia-statistics/.
And then I decided to start snorkeling. There was about 300 or so people on that beach and almost 100 of them were in the water. Crowded but still a lot of room to swim. About 5 minutes into snorkeling I started feeling fins hitting my left leg. “It’s just a fish keep swimming” I thought to myself. I turn and go the other way, And it followed me. I start freaking out. “What if it’s a shark!?” but were also in the shallows so a shark can’t survive there. (I didn’t know that at the time,) And I stop swimming, thinking it swam away. But it is right under me.

I look down and there is a giant sea turtle. My dad said it wanted to be friends. But something wasn’t quite right. It was choking. It was choking on a fishing net. “ Roughly 4,600 sea turtles die each year from fishing” it says on https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+sea+turtles+die+each+year&rlz=1CADEAG_enUS762US762&oq=how+many+sea+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j69i59l2j0l3.4293j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on . We got the lifeguard and the lifeguard ended up saving that sea turtle.

This is extremely important to me because roughly 80% of the life on Earth is found