Mission Blue Page #8

realize how much trouble we're in.

- So that's the Coral Sea, huh?

- Yeah.

- Lot of dead coral, though.

- Yeah.

- Still not many fish.

- No.

Not one shark. Not even one.

- Not one shark.

- No barracuda.

We were hoping for the

schooling barracuda here.

No fish. I mean...

You... you were

expecting more, right?

Oh, heavens yes. Hoping for it.

Just never thought, way out

here, we'd have no fish.

No.

Do you think it was bleaching

and just the world of...

The world is changing.

Half the coral reefs

around the world are gone.

So we're lucky to see

what we did see.

Wow.

Coral reef is like a city.

It's not just the buildings.

New York needs its taxi drivers.

It needs its doctors.

It needs the teachers.

It needs all the pieces that

make the system function.

The corals need the fish.

The fish need the coral.

You take the fish

away, the corals die.

You take the corals

away, the fish die.

We can do things to the ocean.

We will do things.

But first we ought

to think about

how can we use the ocean

and not use it up.

So, Syl, the corals just didn't

look good or they... they were...

No, the living stuff

was mostly young.

Nothing old that...

Well, the reef... the

reef here were big.

Coral's what you expect

to see in the Coral Sea.

And we're in the

middle of nowhere.

- That's what's so...

- I know this is...

- We're in the middle of everywhere?

- Middle of everywhere.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Thanks, Sylvia.

- Yeah.

Sylvia, I honestly have

never met anyone like you.

Your energy, your

tenacity, your passion...

It's... It's inspiring.

Do you ever have that moment

where you say to yourself,

"I'm not gonna do it today. I'm

gonna just take the day off"?

If you saw a child

falling out of a

10-story window,

and you have the ability to

reach out and catch him,

you do everything you can to

position yourself to catch him.

You don't take a break and say,

"Oh... while the child is

falling out of the sky,

I'm gonna go over..."

No, you're there 24/7.

You're there every... with every

ounce of what you've got.

You want to save that child.

Looking up from underneath

Fractured moonlight

on the sea

Reflections still

look the same to me

As before I went under

And it's peaceful

in the deep

Cathedral where you

cannot breathe

No need to pray,

no need to speak

Now I am under all

We're not out of the game yet.

We could still win this thing if

we were able to turn it around.

We've just got to get out there

and make the public aware

of what's happening

and make them care about

what's happening.

We've got to really rewire

the way human beings look at

our relationship to nature.

And the arms of the ocean

Are carrying me

And all this devotion

Was rushing out of me

In the crushes of heaven

For a sinner like me

But the arms of the

ocean delivered me

In the same way that

humans have the ability

to consciously shift the balance

of the Earth, which we've done,

we also have the capacity and

capability of stopping it.

We can shift it. We have to.

It just... It has to happen.

What we have on Earth

is all we'll ever have.

We need to remember that.

The sad fact of it is that...

the ocean could be empty and

it would still look the same.

It's a very hard thing to

convey what's happening,

how it will affect

you personally.

And so as the ocean is being

emptied, and as the ocean is dying,

the surface looks the same,

the waves look the same.

If I could be born

anywhere in time,

it would be now.

It would be now because this is the

time, as never before, that we know.

We understand what we

didn't know 50 years ago.

If we wait another 50 years...

opportunities we now have will be gone.

This is the moment.

Our decisions, our actions will

shape everything that follows.

How much do I love you?

I'll tell you no lie

How deep is the ocean?

How high is the sky?

How many times a day

Do I think of you?

How many roses

Are sprinkled,

sprinkled with dew?

How far would I travel

To be where you are?

How far is the journey

From here to a star?

And if I ever lost you

How much would I cry?

How deep is the ocean?

How high is the sky?

And if I ever lost you

How much would I cry?

How deep is the ocean?

How high

Is the sky?

How high is the sky?

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