What exactly is the ocean? What is the sea? The answer isn’t something you’ll find in a book. To really know what the ocean is, you’ll have to see it for yourself. You’ll have to hear it. And taste it. You’ll have to feel it’s power. I remember the first major storm I witnessed first hand, while living in Southern California. The sound, the smells, the feeling were electric and fostered in me a deep and lasting respect for the prowess of our great oceans.
It never ceases to amaze me that we spend so little time investigating our precious oceans. The oceans compose nearly 73% of the earths total surface area, yet we know more about planets that orbit millions of miles away from us than we do the oceans that surround us, here at home.
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard, the deep sea adventurer who discovered the Titanic and who turned many of the scientific community’s former assumptions on their head, opened my eyes to a pressing need in his recent TED presentation. When you have a moment, watch it here:
Our oceans are a valuable resource, worthy of respect and exploration. It is my great hope that future generations come to understand its wonders, its riches and its role in the maintenance of life on earth as we know it.
Gregory Hake 
I also find it funny that we have gone into space but have never explored the deepest parts of our own planet. It actually is a pretty good metaphor for a problem we have as human beings, as well. We look to explore others: their thoughts and motivations, what they are doing and not doing, but it seems there are few people who really explore their deepest selves, or even want to. I think that both the oceans, and our own selves, need to be more deeply explored.
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I’ve often wondered this very same thing – why do we know so little about our very own oceans? This was well worth the time to watch – fascinating and I can’t wait to hear more about their successes with oceanic discovery.
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