We need water to survive. It is always needed, wanted, seen. Sea, water imagery. It symbolizes purification and redemption, fertitlity, growth, and the unconscious. The river is a transitional phase in the life cycle.
All rivers eventually flow into the sea.
The sea an archetype for the mother of all life, and spiritual mystery. It is timelessness and eternity. It is in everyone. Here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water and seemingly bound for a dive. This, Ismael's perspective of the crowds that gather at the shores.