Anglerfish!

Miss Sheril,
I have to agree with the "Live like you love the oceans" idea - to a point. Modern education, at least for most people, still doesn't really help them understand the link between oceans and ecological processes elsewhere. Ask highschool kids in South Dakota if the Ocean influence their weather, and you are likely to get a lot of puzzled looks. Ask the average resident of the DC region whether the city would ever be impacted by a hurricane, and most will tell you no. And most would be wrong.

So while you can tell people to live like they love the ocean, you need to be willing to do the hard, ongoing work of educating them as to why they should love the oceans. Carnival of the Blue is one such effort. This blog is another.

And my nudibranchs are still way cooler then these fish . . . .

Really cool video!!

"Attention undersea KMart shoppers: Don't forget to check out our Blue Light Special going on at 13,000 feet. And as always, we thank you for shopping at our undersea KMart."

Sorry, couldn't resist. They don't call me mad for nothing. :-)

I am a subscriber to the Mercury News, and I could not access the OpEd by Wallace using the URL you provided. Here is the one that worked for me.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9499256

It is just common sense and most people won't ever see it or understand it. Maybe common sense is not so common.

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