What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
SYLVIA EARLE
No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
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There’s something missing about how we’re informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.
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I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it’s like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about.
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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
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There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat.
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My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
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I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
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I’ve had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
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