The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not.

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.