"A third of the living creatures in the sea died,
and a third of the ships were destroyed."
Humans today realize the negative effects of pollution on bodies of water around the world. Experts have often warned about the dangers of pollutants to marine wildlife. Annually, billions of pounds of plastic and other toxic waste make their way into the world's oceans.
However, these terrible events do not measure up to the events in the book of Revelation. The current devastation of our oceans makes it a bit easier to imagine what will arise after the second trumpet, however, this event will be catastrophic. The account given talks about an object likened to a mountain that is ablaze crashing into the waters. This causes the death of one-third of all marine life. A third of the ships are also destroyed.
Nothing in all of human history will ever be able to compare to the events described in Revelation, for they are no natural phenomena, but the very wrath of God.
