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A couple of years ago, I took a passage on the Maersk Kendal, a mid-sized container ship carrying nearly 7,000 boxes, and I departed from Felixstowe, on the south coast of England, and I ended up right here in Singapore five weeks later, considerably less jet-lagged than I am right now.

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For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.

It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.

That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.

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