Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

The next 10 years could be the most important in the next 10,000.

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

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

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.