When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.
People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.
When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.
Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.
I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
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