Did you know that hiding a bag of dead lobsters, jellyfish and horseshoe crabs in the trunk of a car for over two weeks during the summer, creating an odor that is known for his toenails curl? I did not know this. Well, at least not in this particular occasion.I of 7 years and my first visit to the coast of New Jersey. Before my "first date" with the ocean, I had a great respect for the water. My grandfather had a house along the Hudson River, where he spent countless days fishing and exploration. Ocean, but then did not really know how powerful, big and intimidating was.While my parents behind me, I got into the Atlantic Ocean. It was much colder than I expected. I went out into the waves until the water up to his knees before me, then pulled my fingers in the sand and put my first wave.As questioned my mother warned, "Beware" I saw a dark blue waves rolling towards me. As a novice matador, I was nervous about my country and my "bull" charged. I was only four meters tall and weighed only sixty-five pounds. This "wall of water" looked like a tsunami for me. I started my fresh and the chicken when the waves grew rapidly before my eyes. When the tip of the wave started coming to me like a hand, took out the background to the ankles, feet.My suck beach with my parents warned me about surfing, but never thought it was so powerful. The same force that pulled the toothpick legs was the same force that is capable of taking a whole house and feed in the sea as fast as a mother spoon feeding her baby. The sea is capable of displaying the largest ocean liners as easily divided floating on a sea star beach.Just so feared that the current was sucking me into the abyss, the burden of my opponent in line "line" blow me in the face. It was a double punch.Like liquid tackled together, the waves hit my feet underneath me, while the wave hit the front. I threw the sand as the wave rolled flat me.Being attacked by the water quality has its own unique and terrifying. The fury of water prolongs the agony, not only gives his victim after the play. When struck by a strong wave in the first swallowed, then carried along with it while being battered. And worst of all, steal all oxygen.I breathing was thrown into the beach face as a castaway, and while I gasped for air, the waves gently back into the sea. As I choked and wiped the salt from my eyes burning, I have heard comments from my parents in harmony, "I told you so." Feeling a little intimidated and physically exhausted at this point, I decided to explore the coast. For me, combing the beach was like discovering a whole new planet. With each wave breaking is a new creature washed ashore. Jelly Fish, clams, crabs, but the most intriguing of all were the crabs.When a horseshoe horseshoe crab, is a company is a being whose family spans more than 250 million years. This living fossil is the common name of "U" or horseshoe-shaped shell called the carapace. The scale is the color of sand or mud on the animal to help with their environment. Two pairs of eyes are on the front rounded scale. These are like the compound eyes of insects. They let the animals see in all directions and spear movement.A long, sharp tail as a defensive weapon trace appears, crosses behind the horseshoe crab, but is only used to plow the crab in the sand, act as a rudder and the right of the crab, when he accidentally deposited over.Horseshoe crabs are not crabs at all, that are related to scorpions, ticks and land spiders. Once died to be used as fertilizer, horseshoe crabs are now the subject of intense study in the medical profession.In the 1950s, scientists discovered that Frederick Bang metallic blue color in the horseshoe crab blood contains special cells that help kill certain types of bacteria. If you get a cut of crab, the swarm of cells to the area form a clot and kill invading bacteria. Bang isolated the chemical could blood cells that blood clots formed in the presence of bacteria.During the summer months, the horseshoe crab "Blood Drives" will be held in the shallow half of the coast Atlantic. After collecting the blood of the crabs, then returned to water. In a Cape Cod bay in front of more than 80,000 crabs bled in the course of a season of blood is sold to research with a price of up to $ 15,000