The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

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. Well, now is that time.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.