Numbers & Stats
The percentage of oxygen we breathe that comes directly from the ocean.
What is more than 50%?
One of the authors of The Next Wave of Ocean Exploration
Who is Ray Dalio?
According to Sylvia Earle, this is "far and away, the biggest threat to the ocean."
What is ignorance?
Humanity's most important and most under-examined treasure.
What is the ocean?
The fraction of funding ocean exploration receives compared to space exploration.
What is about one-one hundredth (1/100th)?
One of the authors of The Next Wave of Ocean Exploration
Who is Marc Benioff?
The deepest part of the ocean where trash has unfortunately been detected.
What is the Marianas Trench?
The domain of exploration that currently receives roughly 100 times more funding than ocean exploration.
What is space exploration?
The percentage of the world's oceans that have been fully explored.
What is 5 percent?
The French oceanographer who used underwater cameras over 70 years ago.
Who is Jacques Cousteau?
The animal trapped in an old fishing net in the text.
What is a loggerhead turtle?
Three potential benefits mentioned that can be unlocked by discovering and understanding underwater ecosystems.
What are cures to diseases, new medicines, new foods, or new industries?
The estimated percentage of space where life can exist on Earth contained within the ocean.
What is 94 percent?
The name of the deepest part of the ocean
What is the Marianas Trench?
The remote, icy southern region where floating trash has been discovered.
What is Antarctica?
The three forms of support needed—beyond funding—to turn a ripple of leadership into a tidal wave for ocean security.
What are public, private, and community support?
The number of years it has been since Jacques Cousteau created TV programs.
What is more than 70 years?
The renowned oceanographer who said "Far and away, the biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance."
Who is Sylvia Earle?
What are plastic pollution and climate change?
The core 3-step philosophy shared by the authors at the conclusion regarding human interaction with oceans. (three VERBS!)
What is "If humans explore our oceans, we will love them, and if we love them, we will protect them"?