Ocean
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I know that because I have friends who work on fisheries' research vessels who have sent to me reports from boats out in the
ocean.
And the wind, the northeast wind swooshes it around and carries it off across the
ocean
to Africa, where it's raining.
And this crossing here, of the ocean, is the only truly regular transoceanic crossing of any insect.
And then they strike out across the ocean, down to Kenya.
And the only problem with that was that I lived in a little village in Canada, 600 miles from the nearest
ocean.
And I didn't see the ocean, a real ocean, for another two years, until we moved to California.
And my love affair with the
ocean
is ongoing, and just as strong as it ever was.
So, people have commented on how, "Well, you know, you brought back the
ocean
organisms and put them on the planet of Pandora."
It tasted sweet and clean, like you were taking a bite of the
ocean.
A drop in the ocean, I know, but I'll take it, and so should you, because this love story, however romantic, is also instructive.
We believe that the oceans were in the northern hemisphere, and this area in blue, which shows a depression of about four miles, was the ancient
ocean
area on the surface of Mars.
Where did the
ocean'
s worth of water on Mars go?
That's because the northern hemisphere is the region of the ancient
ocean
basin.
But where I really learned about octopus was in the field, as a filmmaker making films with them, where you're allowed to spend large periods of time with the animals, seeing octopus being octopus in their
ocean
homes.
The
ocean
has an amazing ability to recover, if we'll just leave it alone.
Now, Sylvia's TED Prize wish was to beseech us to do anything we could, everything we could, to set aside not pin pricks, but significant expanses of the
ocean
for preservation, "hope spots," she calls them.
And it's my hope that some of these "hope spots" can be in the deep ocean, an area that has historically been seriously neglected, if not abused.
In the spirit of Jacques Cousteau, who said, "People protect what they love," I want to share with you today what I love most in the ocean, and that's the incredible number and variety of animals in it that make light.
Right after I completed my Ph.D., I was lucky enough to be included with a group of scientists that was using it for the first time as a tool for
ocean
exploration.
We trained in a tank in Port Hueneme, and then my first open
ocean
dive was in Santa Barbara Channel.
In the ocean, it's the rule rather than the exception.
But you don't always have to go down to the depths of the
ocean
to see a light show like this.
Now, this one is blue, and that's the color of most bioluminescence in the
ocean
because evolution has selected for the color that travels farthest through seawater in order to optimize communication.
Because one of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the
ocean
that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the
ocean.
The primary way that we know about what lives in the
ocean
is we go out and drag nets behind ships.
So now we had a system that we could actually take to some place that was kind of like an oasis on the bottom of the
ocean
that might be patrolled by large predators.
This is one of the things James Lovelock has been insisting; basically, our knowledge of the oceans, especially of
ocean
life, is fundamentally vapor, in this sense.
So we're in the process of finding out by inadvertent bad geoengineering of too much CO2 in the atmosphere, finding out, what is the
ocean
doing with that?
Well, the ocean, with the extra heat, is swelling up.
Cumulatively, I will have rowed over 8,000 miles, taken over three million oar strokes and spent more than 312 days alone on the
ocean
on a 23 foot rowboat.
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