A participant runs towards the waters of the North Sea during the annual New Year's plunge event in Ostend, Belgium, January 2, 2016. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
A couple sits on a swing during stormy weather along a beach by the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City on December 8, 2021. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP Photo)
A devotee throws a clay idol of Hindu elephant-headed deity Ganesh into the sea on the third day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Chennai on August 24, 2020. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)
The sun rises over the Baltic Sea and a pier with a tea house in Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, Sunday, August 7, 2022. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)
A boy holds a green sea turtle hatchling before releasing it at Pekan Bada beach on the outskirts of Banda Aceh on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)
A woman runs through a sea foam, as a seasonal cold front moved over the Cape Peninsula, following a week of severe weather and flooding in Cape Town, South Africa on June 19, 2023. (Photo by Nic Bothma/Reuters)
Palestinian bedouin shepherds pull their lambs into the water to wash them, in Gaza City, on April 29, 2016. Every year before the beginning of the summer, shepherds wash their herds in the sea. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP Photo)
F/A-18 fighter jet takes off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea June 13, 2016. (Photo by Baz Ratner/Reuters)