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.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are driving not just the warming trend, not just the sea level rise that is a consequence of the warming trend that is melting polar ice and alpine ice, but also [ocean acidification].

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

We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.

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

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.