Seas cover 70% of our planet, and are full of life. But we are not taking very good care of the sea. Sometimes we treat the sea like a great big dustbin. Rubbish, plastic, sewage and dangerous chemicals all end up in the sea, and this can harm the animals and plants that live there. Or we use big boats and big nets to catch fish - and catch more than we need, or hurt animals with our nets.

The animals have had enough, and they're fighting back. They've attacked the fishermen's nets, squashed the sewage pipes, and now they are dumping the rubbish back on the beaches.

The Hammerhead Sharks set off first, their long heads shovelling the rubbish together, theTiger Sharks gathering the old tin cans, plastic bags, ice-cream papers and empty bottles into their big wide jaws as they followed behind.

"Arrggghhhh!" cried the bathers on the beach, "SHAARRRKKKKSSSSSS!"

Gradually, the pile of rubbish grew higher and higher, making a wall between the beach and the sea.

One final attack. Like acrobats, the seals jumped onto the jetskis and raced out to sea before turning the skis to face the beach.

"Stop!" whistled the Pink Dolphin. "We can't hear a thing down here! We can't even hear ourselves speak!" and swam straight into an oil barrel. "OUCH!"

The seals dived into the sea and watched the skis race into the wall of rubbish. BBAAANNNNGGGGGGGG! The rubbish exploded high into the sky.

From that day on the sea creatures lived in harmony with the sea and not another sound was heard from the humans.

© Carolyne Ardron
Reading by Gillian McAuley
Illustrations by Damien Hazell

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