It isn't too late to shift from the swift, sharp decline of ocean systems in recent decades to an era of steady recovery. There is time, and there is a growing awareness, which is the best way to counter indifference. People who know might care.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

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.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.