Ocean brings in Unexpected object to beach

The beach is always full of treasures. No matter what beach you find yourself, you can find interesting rocks, shells, seaweed, and sometimes a little bit more. With the constant flow of the ocean, debris is always being pushed around, and occasionally interesting items will wash up on shore.

This video is an interesting example of that. It starts with a man going beach combing on a sunny day. He mentions the ocean going in and the ocean going out, neglecting to use the proper word for this phenomenon. After scanning the beach, he spots what appears to be and interesting item and walks over to investigate. After brushing aside seaweed and sand, we see exactly what he has found, and the pun is complete: Tide. The ocean has brought in the Tide.

This is a classic dad joke. A pun that is both silly and terrible at the same time. It’s clear that he’s pranked the viewer, who may have expected a treasure more grandiose, but from the tone of his voice you can hear the smile and the smirk as he laughs at his own joke. Even without an audience you can hear the groans from people as they roll their eyes at this terrible joke.

The tide really does come in and go out every day at the beach, though not in the literal sense that this man means, and instead from the pull of the moon, and ocean currents. With the tide, plastic debris and other assortments of trash wash up on the shore every day, and while most won’t be treasures, it is important to clean them from the beach nonetheless. Picking up trash from a beach will limit its spread in the ocean, make our beaches cleaner and friendlier, and help save countless sea creatures along the way, who may mistake trash for food if it isn’t scooped up.

While this video may be simply be a terrible dad joke to some, to others it may always be a reminder to clean up our beaches and our oceans, so that they may be enjoyed well into the future.