the tide

I was mesmerized thinking about the unrealized effect that the moon has on the water. I don't think people realize how powerful the tide is until you miscalculate a dive at the Tacoma Narrows. I even clung to a large boulder on the sea bottom, but it was just sucked with me! Now, that is power. Fortunately, I remembered just to head for the shore directly.

I have always respected the moon, but today I was thinking about how it's prescence tugs on the earth so much and effects the water quite profoundly. I came to this thought as I was thinking about things that effect us and make us react a cetain defined way, is it always accounted for? There was that one time I researched the tides on NOAA, as always, and was depending on it to be constant. It was. But I did not take into account the sluggishness of my rather plump dive buddy, who was almost constantly out of breath. I just figured that was just how he was. So we reached our destination a bit on the tardy side, which wouldn't have really made such a big deal but he also liked to stop and look at each toilet we passed to see the various barnacles and coral life that had taken up residency there. Combined, it equalled our predictament. Alas we survived, but I got to experience the "tug of the moon".

All the while, the moon lay hidden in the daytime sky, But gravity icreases as proximity does, too. Does the moon have greater pull then on people who climb mount everest? I think that I'm opening more questions than I answer.