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.
SYLVIA EARLEWe have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
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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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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 want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
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Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica.
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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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Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life.
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I’ve always said, ‘Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.’
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Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid.
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Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe.
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.
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I love music of all kinds, but there’s no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.
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Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.
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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.
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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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The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.
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