There Is An Enormous Amount To Be

Why Is It That Scuba Divers And Surfers Are Some Of The Strongest Advocates Of Ocean Conservation? Because They've Spent Time In And Around The Ocean, And They've Personally Seen The Beauty, The Fragility, And Even The Degradation Of Our Planet's Blue Heart.

We Couldn't Go To The Moon On Whale Oil. We Don't Have The Capacity Yet To Consider Doing Such Things As Harnessing Current Sunlight. We're Burning Ancient Sunlight In Order To Get Us To Where We Now Are. But It's Costly.

My First Breath Was Just...it Just Seemed Impossible That You Could Actually Breathe Underwater. I Knew In My Mind It Was Possible, But Actually Experiencing It Was Such A Gulp Of Joy And I Feel It Every Time I Go Under The Ocean. I Love Doing It, To Be Able To Feel Weightless, To Spin On One Finger, To Do Somersaults, To Be Like A Graceful Ballerina - Even With A Huge Tank On Your Back You Can Do The Most Extraordinary Things.

Ocean Acidification - The Excess Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere That Is Turning The Oceans Increasingly Acid - Is A Slow But Accelerating Impact With Consequences That Will Greatly Overshadow All The Oil Spills Put Together. The Warming Trend That Is Co2-related Will Overshadow All The Oil Spills That Have Ever Occurred Put Together.

There Are Now More Than 4,000 Places In The Sea Around The World That Have Some Kind Of Protection. The Bad News: You Have To Look Hard To Find Them. What You Find Instead Is Destructive Fishing, Mining, Gas And Oil Exploration.