Above us, I know, there are floodlights, attached to the telephone poles, for use in emergencies, and there are men with machine guns in the pillboxes on either side of the road.
It's good that our submersible has a powerful floodlight — without it, we wouldn't have been able to see the astonishing beauty of the deep-sea coral reefs located at the depth of 9, 900 ft.
Now the gates have sentries and there are ugly new floodlights mounted on metal posts above it, and barbed wire along the bottom and broken glass set in concrete along the top.