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I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.

Sylvia Earle

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
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They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
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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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We wouldn’t be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
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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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Could Endless Exterminate Fish Have Learn No Otherwise Resilient Species Way
I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don’t see in the daytime.
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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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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
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They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.
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Everyone has power. But it doesn’t help if you don’t use it.
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Everyone Has Help Power
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.
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Area Barrel Country Dispersant Enormous Five Gallon Gulg Million Permanent Quantities Release Sudden
I’m friends with James Cameron. We’ve spent time together over the years because he is a diver and explorer and in his heart of hearts a biologist. We run into each other at scientific conferences.
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