Drop into the Ocean [video]

Great Post though!!

It's sad but the human race will never learn. There are more ignorant, stupid people in our world than smart and educated people.

The best solution is to let all sea and land animals go extinct, so that the human race can either start eating each other or learn to survive without our animal neighbors. Either way, i'll be gone by the time there is a change... it's sad, but it's the human way live... to destroy...

Great post. Very informative.

Thanks for sharing this.

Some Quick Notes:

1) Unsustainable Harvest: industrial fishing fleets depleting 'local zone fishing' with high-tech targeting (no schools can escape - rendering fish exposure to near 100%), ...trumping typical local community catch, say 583 fishemen in a community as an example, equals a 12 to 1 impact...

Perspective: Based on catching in one month what 7000 fishermen will catch in one year, and that a small village may have, say as an example, as many as 583 fishermen,
THEN one European Fishing Vessel takes the equivalent of 12 small villages anytime it is fishing off example village shore.
SO, as a fisherman in said village, instead of competing against the typical 582 other fishermen, you are now competing against 6,995 other fishermen if only one European fishing vessel shows up offshore.

2) Not mentioned in the video: Size of fish that are caught in most waters are now between 6 to 10 times smaller than they were about 20 years ago ...across the board. (I think this relates to #s 3 and 4 ahead)

3) With bi-catch waste of 5 out of 6 fish caught, this means about 80% wasted fish for 20% caught and taken (close enough).
Using the above scenario in #1, this equates to upping the anti to said fisherman about 5 times, or equivalent to 2,910 more fishermen he is up against, bring the total number of fishermen he is now competing with from 582 up to 9,905, or from 12 to now 17 times more competition.
*....for fish that are on average 6-10 times smaller than what he caught only 20 years ago.

4) Serial depletion of stocks: don't know how to apply any math to that. I think it would be fair to at least ascribe its impact to the reduction in fish sizes mentioned above, if nothing else. (Has a basis in other documented materials you can easily validate on your own.)

There are other points in the video... I was just taking some notes and musing on the direct impact to local village fisher's that may be measurable. Its devastating if you think about it, and that's not including factors from so many other impacts being mentioned here or elsewhere.

I found the video to be a bit dreary, but I appreciate some of the facts it shared, including scoping the ways we are impacting ocean life, and offering a suggestion for addressing this.

This is one of the most important (and emotional) videos out there, right now, and I beg everyone to pass it along to every other human being.

I cannot begin to thank you enough for sharing this video, and I hope it goes 'round the world.

Very cool .

Great video! Thanks for posting it. I choose fresh breeze from ocean!

Thank you. Voted up.

Great post! This is so important for the future of healthy life on this planet.