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We piled enormous amounts of pollution into the air and into the water.

We need to address that issue.

Or, sometimes I take them to places that people have never heard of because they're underwater.

pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

We'll look at sea level rise.

For a variety of reasons they're dangerous, but we feel that OOl, this Ocean Observatory Initiative, which the National Science Foundation has begun to fund, has the potential to really transform things.

And so from this we're able to identify these blue highways, these hot spots in the ocean, that should be real priority areas for ocean conservation.

So stay tuned for further information.

The equalization of the oceanic

It was 49 years ago.

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

like black carbon, that is soot.

Why are people afraid of the ocean?

Tip of the Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba.

It provides a surface for things in the ocean, and this surface, which is covered by seaweeds and other organisms in the ocean, will become enhanced marine habitat so it increases biodiversity.

Well, there's also another program, in another agency within our government, in ocean exploration.

the massive depth and pressure there, coupled with subfreezing temperatures, would crush and entomb them,

And finally, we wanted to see where we could look at what the impact of this structure would be in the marine environment, and we set up a field site at a place called Moss Landing Marine Lab in Monterey Bay, where we worked in a harbor to see what impact this would have on marine organisms.

I've been working on ocean pollution for quite a long time the impacts on marine life and particularly the impacts on marine mammals.

And there are a lot of other pressures.

We made a chip that has every known virus ever discovered on it.

We'll look at ocean warming.

And what's exciting you all travel, and you know the best thing about traveling is to be able to find the locals, and to find the great places by getting the local knowledge.

Japan is also surrounded by oceans.

WOMAN ( over radio ) The yacht Tranquilizer.

And Dave Gallo signed on.

In the early '70s,

But it's not just the carbonate producers that are affected.

One of these days we will. ( mellow theme playing ) WOMAN ( over radio )

And we're letting industry run the show.

Well, I could stand here for hours, but, of course, I'm not allowed to do that.

Well, law, Soylent, oceanography...?

More than 90 percent, 99 percent, of the living space on our planet is ocean.

NGOs and governments spend a lot of time and energy and resources in a few small areas, usually.

To me, the most mind bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.

They also become nutrients for arable and marine cultivation at the bottom.

If it's too big or too toxic for a landfill, deep six it!

Japan is a country with advanced environmental technologies.

Dr. Satoshi Takada. Marine biologist. Lieutenant Commander for the Navy since 1997.

But I miss the sea already.

We're only just beginning to understand how the physical oceanography and the biological oceanography come together to create a seasonal force that actually causes the upwelling that might make a hot spot a hope spot.

There are four oceans in the world.

I've taken them camping in the kelp forests of California.

Algae. It infected marine life.