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The real potential, the long term potential, is with this community of DIY ocean explorers that are forming all over the globe.
It was the glimpse into a potential future for ocean exploration.
We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water.
And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound.
A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean.
But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the noise that propellers make underwater is sometimes at the same frequency that whales use, then it can damage their acoustic habitat, and they need this for breeding, for finding feeding grounds, for finding mates.
So thank you. (Applause) It's the fifth time I stand on this shore, the Cuban shore, looking out at that distant horizon, believing, again, that I'm going to make it all the way across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean.
The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean, is in these waters, and I have come close to dying from them on a previous attempt.
And so there won't be another epic journey in the ocean.
Craig Venter's tremendous and brilliant attempt to DNA sequence things in the ocean is great.
Now, if you look at the high sea, there might be beautiful, calm ocean, like a mirror.
There might be storms, but the depth of the ocean is still there, unchanged.
We have all sorts of other problems, like ocean acidification that come from CO2 in the atmosphere, anyway.
Well there's an invisible pasture of microscopic photosynthesizers called phytoplankton that fill the upper 200 meters of the ocean, and they feed the entire open ocean ecosystem.
Every year, they fix 50 billion tons of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide into their bodies that feeds the ocean ecosystem.
And so we mapped the phytoplankton distributions across the ocean.
So over the years, we and others, many others, have studied Prochlorococcus across the oceans and found that they're very abundant over wide, wide ranges in the open ocean ecosystem.
They're particularly abundant in what are called the open ocean gyres.
They're incredibly important in the global ocean.
There are some that are adapted to the high-light intensities in the surface water, and there are some that are adapted to the low light in the deep ocean.
Projections are that their populations will expand as the ocean warms to 30 percent larger by the year 2100.
Now, the fuel from fusion comes from the ocean.
In the ocean, you can extract the fuel for about one thousandth of a cent per kilowatt-hour, so that's very, very cheap.
And if the whole planet would run on fusion, we could extract the fuel from the ocean.
And so it's not surprising, perhaps, that in July of this year, Shark Attack Mitigation Systems in collaboration with the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute made an announcement which captured the attention of the worldwide media and of ocean users worldwide, and that was around the development of technology to mitigate or reduce the risk of shark attack based on the science of what sharks can see.
The next thing we did was to understand, using complex computer modeling, what that eye can see at different depths, distances, light conditions, and water clarity in the ocean.
There are other pieces: the winds changing the ocean currents.
Andy also talks about the fact that our ocean conservation movement really grew out of the land conservation movement, and in land conservation, we have this problem where biodiversity is at war with food production.
And I really began to feel that if you were lucky enough to walk around the candlelit temples of Tibet or to wander along the seafronts in Havana with music passing all around you, you could bring those sounds and the high cobalt skies and the flash of the blue ocean back to your friends at home, and really bring some magic and clarity to your own life.
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