World Oceans Day

Or is it?

The truth is that our oceans, vast and beautiful as they may look, are in great peril. Global warming, acidification, contaminants, plastic pollution, overfishing, and other issues have put the great blue “on the verge of a cataclysmic decline”, as oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle says in her wonderful book The World is Blue.

As population grows, humanity is turning to the ocean more and more for resources, energy, transportation, recreation, food… a suicidal process unless we understand that the ocean is the planet’s life support system. In fact, the ocean produces 50% of the oxygen we breathe and contains 97% of the world’s living space.

What can we do to protect our oceans? Our advisor, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, a noted ocean biologist and a Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences, likes to sum it up in one sentence: “we have to live like we love the ocean”

Loving the ocean is loving the entire web of life because, as Dr. Sylvia Earle says, our fate and the ocean’s are one.

This knowledge is one of the driving principles behind BlooSee’s vision of a world where everyone with a passion for the ocean can access trusted, up-to-date information anytime, anywhere.

At BlooSee we are working hard to harness the best ocean information and make it accessible and useful. In doing so we hope to help millions engage in a better enjoyment and stewardship of our beloved en endangered seas.

To honor and to celebrate the ocean on World Oceans Day we invite you to watch and share this great video featuring Dr. Sylvia Earle.