Sophisticated anchors are able to get a tight grip into any sea bottom.
Even now, the Anchor still stands as the visual symbol for 'Hope'. AC038 - Anchor Candle Holder, brass. Maybe it has to do with their often intimidating solitary locations. Maybe we long sometimes simply be a lighthouse keeper for while, only lighting and extinguishing lamps, occasionally stepping out on a railed platform, smoking a pipe, solving the riddle of our being. It may just not be our fate, which is why we tend to surround ourselves with lighthouse mania.