Mission Blue
Look at this.
It's an ocean full
of whale sharks.
I can't even count
the number of fins.
Are we awake or are we...
are we still dreaming?
They've been living here
for millions of years.
We're newcomers in
their backyard.
I love being a part
of their world.
They're completely innocent
Since the oil spill, this
group of whale sharks,
the largest ever witnessed
in the Northern Gulf...
has not been seen there again.
Guess we'll put this little...
beast inside.
There you go. Thank you.
In the last few years, I'm on the road...
probably 300 days out of the lot.
And I give a lot of talks... some
days just from dawn to dusk.
I can't think of anything I'd rather
be doing... other than diving.
Aren't you a radical about
protecting the oceans?
If I seem like a radical, it may be
because I see things that others do not.
I think if others had the opportunity to
witness what I have seen in my lifetime,
what I see when I go diving
and the perspective that I've gained
from thousands of hours underwater,
I would not seem like
a radical at all.
She has seen with her own eyes,
parts of this Earth few
others could even imagine.
Sylvia Earle, this country's
foremost oceanographer,
exploring depths thought
impossible to reach.
It's a pleasure to
introduce a scientist,
an engineer, a teacher
and an explorer,
I can see in my mind's eye...
a different world,
a world that's changed
enormously just in my lifetime.
Sixty years ago, when I
began exploring the ocean,
no one imagined that we could
do anything to harm it.
It seemed at that time
to be a sea of Eden.
But now, we're facing
paradise lost.
And this is not, "Woe is me,"
this is just the reality
of what's happening.
But it's also the reality, we
have a chance to fix things.
Please welcome Dr. Sylvia Earle.
On any given night,
Sylvia Earle can be found
in Norwalk, Connecticut,
or Stockholm, Sweden, or
Cape Town, South Africa.
Her Deepness, Sylvia Earle.
In Beijing, Belfast, Davos
or the Galapagos Islands.
Think of the changes
that have occurred
in the world in the lifetime of
a 200-year-old orange roughy.
But they don't know why
their world has changed.
And that's where I met her,
at a sort of ocean summit.
I'm a big scuba diver.
I love the oceans.
I love them more now
that I've met Sylvia,
but, um, it's also people like...
like you in this room
that can save the ocean.
The world's largest fishery was,
and still the largest
fishery in the US,
is Alaskan pollock, and it's
moving into the Arctic.
Bluefin are pursued
wherever they go.
ecologically off the planet.
If we fail to take care of the ocean...
nothing else matters.
I've been diving for
over half my life now...
but that is nothing
compared to her.
She's been exploring the ocean
since before I was born.
Sylvia, that turtle was a trip!
- And she came back here.
- Yeah!
She went up, got a breath of air,
came right back to that same place.
I spent one week with
Sylvia and I was hooked.
- Gular flutter.
- Gular flutter.
How could I have not known
who she was before?
After the Galapagos trip,
I really didn't wanna
leave Sylvia's world.
So I didn't.
Is that her? Yeah, yeah.
That's her.
That's her. There she is.
Thank you!
What a beautiful place.
What I didn't realize
at the time...
was that this would be the beginning
of a three-year odyssey...
a chance to see the ocean and the
world through Sylvia's eyes.
Sylvia, the minute I met you,
Like, seriously.
Just take me back to how
you became so passionate
about the ocean.
Well, it all started
in New Jersey.
As a kid, I had complete freedom
to go play in the woods,
to spend all day out,
just fooling around.
On my own, often.
I mean, a lot of the
time, just on my own.
Left bank, I'm
waiting for someone
Someone to be my friend
bird lady of the neighborhood.
squirrels, birds, frogs...
anything that needed help.
Without you...
My father, who was really so bright
and so capable of fixing things.
When I was a little kid, I'd try to take
things apart to see how they worked
and he always reminded me to save
all the pieces, don't lose any,
and be sure you know how to
put it back together again.
I can't hold the sun
We're losing a lot
of the parts...
the loss of the diversity
of life on Earth...
the bits and pieces have
just disappeared...
and we don't know how to put things
back together again once they're gone.
When I was 12, we picked
up and moved to Florida.
At first, I was not particularly charmed,
because I loved the other place so much.
But the Gulf of Mexico was
this great blue body of water
that created almost this mythic
place that lured my parents there.
Some kids play in the streets.
Some kids have a backyard
and my backyard was wet.
It was the Gulf of Mexico.
It was glorious.
in love with the ocean.
I could see it. I could hear it.
ashore in huge amounts.
It was like going to the zoo.
I had fun finding these creatures...
like little crabs.
You could take them and then gently
put them back into the ocean,
and they'd scurry off.
It was just heaven for a kid...
for me.
It will always be that way in my
mind, it's just this paradise.
Happening now, an
explosion and fire
devastate a massive oil rig
off the Louisiana coast.
Last week's deadly
oil rig blowout
remains unchecked tonight.
environmental disaster in the making.
As long as the oil is flowing
down here in the Gulf,
this will simply keep growing
and growing and growing,
and they have no idea
where the end will be.
How'd you feel? What was
your first reaction?
It was shocking.
And it just got worse
as the news unfolded.
Of course, the tragedy was
Then this gush of oil wouldn't stop,
wouldn't stop, wouldn't stop!
When I was a child
living in Florida,
there was only one offshore oil
well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Today, there are more
than 33,000 drill sites.
All of us... we are the beneficiaries
of having burned through fossil fuels.
Coal, gas, oil.
But at what cost?
I really come to
speak for the ocean.
We put billions into what takes
us into the skies above...
and it's paying off handsomely.
We've neglected the ocean...
and it's costing us dearly.
The thing that's impressive
to me about Sylvia
is that she's not afraid
to point fingers...
and say, "You know what you're
doing, and it's wrong."
You know, she's kind of the
Joan of Arc of the oceans.
- Go!
- She's the one that's out in front
leading the charge in the
fight to save the ocean.
And she's made it her life's purpose
in the last couple of decades
to make sure everybody else understands
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