Ocean
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Instead of the governor now we have a photograph of an abstract, beautiful setting, in this case, the
ocean.
It has a two-person titanium sphere, 90 millimeters-thick, that keeps it at one atmosphere, and it has the ability to dive repeatedly down to the very deepest point of the
ocean.
DB: So like the SpaceX of
ocean
exploration?
VV: Yeah, it's kind of the SpaceX of
ocean
exploration, but I pilot my own vehicles.
If I'm down there for four days, something's gone so wrong I'm probably not going to use it, but it's about three hours down to the deepest part of the
ocean
and then we can spend usually three or four hours and then another three hours up.
DB: And so more people have been to space than the bottom of the
ocean.
Places on land or close to the surface of the
ocean
have the advantage of access to sunlight.
One setting offers protection from this radiation and an alternative energy source: the hydrothermal vents that wind across the
ocean
floor, covered by kilometers of seawater and bathed in complete darkness.
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls "tomorrow's child," asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living
ocean
while there still was time.
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild
ocean
in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind.
Health to the
ocean
means health for us.
In 1979 I had a chance to put my footprints on the
ocean
floor while using this personal submersible called Jim.
Ninety-seven percent of Earth's water is
ocean.
If you think the
ocean
isn't important, imagine Earth without it.
No ocean, no life support system.
The
ocean
drives climate and weather, stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry.
Since then, I've had the great pleasure of working with the Googlers, with DOER Marine, with National Geographic, with dozens of the best institutions and scientists around the world, ones that we could enlist, to put the
ocean
in Google Earth.
Consider this: Starting right here at the convention center, we can find the nearby aquarium, we can look at where we're sitting, and then we can cruise up the coast to the big aquarium, the ocean, and California's four national marine sanctuaries, and the new network of state marine reserves that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets We can flit over to Hawaii and see the real Hawaiian Islands: not just the little bit that pokes through the surface, but also what's below.
How about some X Prizes for
ocean
exploration?
Excess carbon dioxide is not only driving global warming, it's also changing
ocean
chemistry, making the sea more acidic.
We're clogging the ocean, poisoning the planet's circulatory system, and we're taking out hundreds of millions of tons of wildlife, all carbon-based units.
This chart shows the decline in
ocean
wildlife from 1900 to 2000.
Imagine the
ocean
without fish.
In the last three years, for example, the U.S. protected 340,000 square miles of
ocean
as national monuments.
But it only increased from 0.6 of one percent to 0.8 of one percent of the
ocean
protected, globally.
Or the Antarctic, where the continent is protected, but the surrounding
ocean
is being stripped of its krill, whales and fish.
But, nothing else will matter if we fail to protect the
ocean.
Our fate and the
ocean'
s are one.
We need to do for the
ocean
what Al Gore did for the skies above.
New technologies are needed to map, photograph and explore the 95 percent of the
ocean
that we have yet to see.
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