I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

Even our rules and regulations, our laws, our policies, favor the destructive nature of taking too much from the ocean and using techniques that are horribly destructive. We know they don't work. We know it's not sustainable.

You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

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.

Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.