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Explore the Antarctic with Sylvia Earle [VIDEO]

Go on a journey with Mission Blue founder, Dr. Sylvia Earle, to the Southern Ocean as she narrates a short video [watch below]. Click play, to learn about the distinctive life that lives in the frigid Antarctic waters and see beautiful visuals of the unique ecosystems that exist in the most southern reaches of the world.…

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America’s Cup Sailors Pledge to Keep the Ocean Healthy — [VIDEO]

As part of the America’s Cup Healthy Oceans Project, participating sailors and skippers pledge their commitment to protect the ocean they compete on.
In a recent video, some of the world’s best sailors, assembled in San Francisco for the America’s Cup, pledged to specific actions to protect the world’s ocean. While, some committed to dispose of their trash responsibly, others said they would drive more fuel efficient cars and still others vowed to say “no” to single-use plastic bottles.
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Also last week, Dr. Sylvia Earle, an ambassador of the America’s Cup Healthy Oceans Project, traveled to San Francisco, to highlight some of the issues threatening our ocean.
The videos and lectures supporting the America’s Cup Healthy Oceans Project have a clear message: we can make a difference.…

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Google Street View Goes Underwater

By Mera McGrew
Today, Google Street View splashes into the world’s ocean allowing people to dive in and explore coral reefs from behind their computer screens, tablets and smartphones. In the same way you have long been able to virtually walk around a busy New York City block using Street View, you can now also splash underwater and “swim” through a coral reef off the coast of Australia.
“With Street View in Google Maps we have gone to seven continents, including Antarctica where you can go into Scott’s Hut, you can go down the Amazon River and to the Arctic,” the manager of Google Ocean, Jenifer Foulkes, told Mission Blue.  “And now we are taking you underwater to 6 locations in the world with Caitlin Seaview Survey.”…

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Live Underwater Hangout at the Launch of Google’s Underwater Street View

By Mera McGrew
Today, millions around the world were able to dive into the ocean and explore the Great Barrier Reef  without even getting wet.
In a Google+ Hangout live from the launch of Google’s Underwater Street View, a packed room in Monterey California video chatted with James Cook University marine biologist Richard Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick, was underwater on a reef off the coast of Australia. He swam through the darkened reef in the middle of the night, stopping to show viewers a giant clam and the feeding mechanisms of a starfish. As a juvenile green sea turtle swam by, the audience watching live in Monterey gasped and applauded loudly. Fitzpatrick talked about green turtle nesting sites located near where he was diving before signing off.…

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In the Field: Pacific Islands Forum Marks New Era in Marine Conservation

By Peter Seligmann
I am on the plane returning from the Pacific Islands Forum in the Cook Islands. All I can say is “Wow.”
Thanks to the inspired leadership of CI’s newest board member, President Anote Tong of Kiribati, and strong support from the Prime Minister Henry Puna of the Cook Islands, the Pacific Oceanscape is gaining traction. In fact, the Oceanscape has been officially adopted by the entire forum as an essential platform of their collaboration with each other and with their outside development partners, including Australia, the European Union, the World Bank, the U.N., China, the U.S., New Zealand, France and Taiwan.
These leaders have appointed one of their most distinguished and senior diplomats, Tuiloma Neroni Slade of Samoa as the commissioner of the Pacific Oceanscape and have created a Regional Ocean Alliance to provide support to the commission.…

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In the Field: Before Pacific Islands Forum, a Memorable Dive in Cook Islands

By Greg Stone
As I gaze at the night sky, the stars are the clearest I have ever seen them. The Milky Way glows from horizon to horizon, and while I see many familiar constellations visible from the Northern Hemisphere, I also see a number of new ones — strange assortments of stars that are only visible south of the equator.
We are here diving in the Cook Islands on the breaking crest of a new wave of marine conservation. This week, 16 nations have gathered at the 43rd Pacific Islands Forum to coordinate their actions across an area so vast it encompasses 40 million square kilometers (15.4 million square miles) — 10% of our planet’s ocean. This area is called the Pacific Oceanscape.…

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