There's certainly a common theme about needing to make the moment out of this.

I'll say this much about a deepsea oil rig... secondworst thing I've ever smelled.

A deepwater oil platform near the Indonesian archipelago.

It's a scientific drilling vessel.

And so what we did was, actually, we made moratoriums on the east and west coasts on drilling.

We drilled through a hundred meters of floating ice shelf then through 900 meters of water and then 1,300 meters into the sea floor.

John henry raced a steamdrill through a moutain.

MineStrike's still loose.

This is the ship that I spent the last three months on in the Antarctic.

pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

We'll look at sea level rise.

So we drill back in time to see how often that's happened, and exactly how fast that ice can melt.

That's a person down there by the wheel.

To fix the stalled harvester.

This is a crazy thing, this big drill rig wrapped in a blanket to keep everybody warm, drilling at temperatures of minus 40.

So stay tuned for further information.

The equalization of the oceanic

The first offshore wells were called whales.

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

like black carbon, that is soot.

(Laughter)

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

With scientists around the world, I've been looking at the 99 percent of the ocean that is open to fishing and mining, and drilling, and dumping, and whatever to search out hope spots, and try to find ways to give them and us a secure future.

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.

Japan is also surrounded by oceans.

WOMAN ( over radio ) The yacht Tranquilizer.

And Dave Gallo signed on.

Like Dale City, I suppose?

So, this used to be completely smooth.

Tony said near the backhoe.

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...?

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.

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.