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"If we do nothing, our planet will die." We have been hearing this line for a long time, and very little of course has changed. We still decimate the oceans, focus our attention on silly things, when if just people would stop killing sea creatures that don't need to be killed, most of our problems of global warming would disappear.

In 2003, Mother Star and I finally fulfilled a life long dream. We embarked on a dive trip to Micronesia. Micronesia sits in the South Pacific below Guam and is know to all divers and the place to visit. In fact, Out Traveler Magazine rated Palau, which is the jewel of Micronesia as one of the top five places in the world to visit.

After one particular dive, we were heading back to the resort when we came across a huge pod of Pilot Whales. The captain immediately began to slow the boat down as soon as we spotted the dorsal fins.

As soon as the captain turned the engines off, myself and another diver immediately grabbed our snorkeling gear and dove into the deep blue waters. (It was so deep, you could not see the ocean floor.) The first thing I noticed were the songs of the pilot whales. For those of you who are not in the know, sounds travels twenty times faster in water, and the acoustics are amazing. The songs the Pilot Whales sang was not only astounding, but awe inspiring.

There we were, floating in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, supported only by our breath, the salty ocean water, while enjoying a symphony of majestic sound in the middle of Micronesia.

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What very few people realize and don't connect is that the health of our planet lies in the oceans. At the end of Peter Heller's book he says,

"In the November 2006 Issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950 and 2003 declared that if current trends of fishing and pollution continue, every fishery in the world's ocean will collapse by 2048. No more fish sticks. No more snorkeling along reefs with schools of fish. No more fish cat food. No more fish. The oceans as an ecosystem would completely collapse.

A report published by a coalition of federal and university scientists a few months earlier warned that the oceans are now more acidic than they have been for the last 650,000 years, owing to increased green house gases and the sequestration in the sea of more carbon from the atmosphere. The report said that by 2100 the oceans could be more acidic than they have been in millions of years, leading to the death of creatures that secrete skeletal structures like coral, shellfish, and calciferous phytoplankton."

The sad news is, what will most people do about it. In history, have almost seen the genocide of so many humans. Why should it matter if the genocide of an ocean species takes place? And that is just the point. People don't and in particular, the Japanese government does not care. And whats worse is that you can't say that because it is politically incorrect. And joining the Japanese are the Norwegians, the Icelandic people, the Russians, and of course all those who would rather turn a blind eye to the destruction of our oceans because it might hurt trade or tourism. And yet every year, the world allows country's such as Japan to hunt Whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary's.

What is even more disturbing is that the general public in Japan does not even consume Whale Meat, but through school lunch programs, and other marketing campaigns, is having Whale Meat almost force upon them. Because of the popular decline of Whale Meat interest, many corporations and investors are no pulling out of Whaling operations. But the fight is far from over.

Around 1735, Steller's Sea Cows were discovered. By 1768, less than 30 years after it had been discovered, Steller's sea cow was extinct.

The population of sea cows was small and limited in range when Steller first described them. Steller said they were numerous and found in herds, but zoologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger later estimated that at discovery there had been less than 1500 remaining, and thus had been in immediate danger of extinction from over hunting by humans.[5] They were quickly wiped out by the Russian sailors, seal hunters, and fur traders that followed Bering's route past the islands to Alaska, who hunted them both for food and for their skins, which were used to make boats. They were also hunted for their valuable subcutaneous fat, which was not only used for food (usually as a butter substitute), but also for oil lamps because it did not give off any smoke or odor and could be kept for a long time in warm weather without spoiling.

We will NEVER get to see the Steller Sea Cows, and at this rate, many species of whales could become extinct in our lifetime.

Long time advocate, Greenpeace founder, and Captain of the Sea Shepard Captain Paul Watson sets sail around the world aboard the Farley Mowat actively doing his best to stop those who are decimating the oceans through whaling, drift netting, and other insane and illegal activities.

THE WHALE WARRIORS, by Peter Keller joined Paul Watson and his 44-person crew on their voyage to find and halt an illegal Japanese whaling fleet en route to the Antarctic sea. The Japanese planned to hunt Whales Illegally in the Whale Sanctuary's of the Antartic Sea.

Founded thirty years ago by Paul Watson, one of the original founders of Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd (Click here to go to Sea Shepherd's website - https://my.seashepherd.org ) is regarded by some as an ecoterrorist group and its members as pirates. But despite what many would call fanatical measures, which have included the purposeful sinking of nine ships, Sea Shepherd has never harmed a person in the pursuit of its mission to stop illegal whaling, drift-netting, long-lining, dolphin-slaughter, and sealing. Heller met Paul Watson in May of 2005 at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival, where Watson told the following story from his days with Greenpeace: