Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.
There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma. They've got the same amount of sodium, too.
If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.