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Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.

I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.