# Oceans Bowermaster: Exploring the Threats to our Seas

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/10/oceans-bowermaster-exploring-the-threats-to-our-seas/
- Published: 2020-10-28T02:05:10-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

⌊Oceans by bowermaster⌉⌊Oceans by bowermaster⌉Thank you so much to National Geographic
for sending me the book called: Oceans. The Threats to our Sea and What Can Be Done
to turn the Tide. #[oceans](https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/08/dr-sylvia-earle-to-receive-brits-2018-international-award-of-excellence-in-conservation/)#
protectouroceans

## Oceans The Movie

This unique tie-in to the major motion picture _Oceans_—coming this April from Disney&
_National Geographic_—explores the [health](https://greenlivingguy.com/2010/08/ted-danson-and-oceana-champions-for-the-arctic-ocean/)
of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it.

More than [75 percent of the globe](https://greenlivingguy.com/2010/06/ted-danson-and-the-green-living-guy-talk-oceans-and-oceana-at-the-heart-of-green-how-appropriate-given-the-gulf-coast-oil-spill/)
is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to understand why it is called
Planet Earth rather than Planet [Ocean](https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/08/nonprofit-making-waves-saving-our-oceans/).
Since half the world’s human population lives within a stone’s throw of an ocean
[coastline](https://greenlivingguy.com/2016/06/world-ocean-day-protecting-our-oceans-for-future-generations/),
the oceans’ health is increasingly important. Rich with resources and potential—
as a source of renewable energy, new drugs, drinking water—for years we have treated
them as both [infinite and undamageable](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/12/oceana-applauds-court-decision-to-prevent-overfishing-of-five-fish-species-in-new-england-and-mid-atlantic/).
But they are not.

### Problems with the Oceans

Over-fishing, climate change, pollution, [acidification](https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/03/canon-goes-real-on-coral-reefs/),
and more have put the [world’s oceans and marine life](https://www.aquariadise.com/fish-facts-all-about-the-ocean/)
at great risk.

_Oceans_ gathers some of the most insightful visionaries, explorers, and ocean lovers—
[marine biologists](https://greenlivingguy.com/2026/07/esa-gulf-whale-exemption-threats-to-rices-whale/),
politicians, [environmentalists](https://greenlivingguy.com/2014/05/help-project-save-our-surf-project-in-vietnam/),
fishermen, sportsmen, deep divers, and more—in a unique anthology, in which each
speaks to a unique aspect of our world’s most dimly understood dimension.

#### More About the Movie

So in this companion to the Disney [movie](https://greenlivingguy.com/2024/03/illegal-fishing-a-global-threat-to-marine-ecosystems/)
Oceans, released in April 2010. The editor candidly writes that jolting readers 
into environmental activism is his purpose. Credible for this task due to his stature
as a documentary film producer and author (Birthplace of the Winds, 2001),

For ocean author Bowermaster enlisted dozens of contributors. Those who, in several
pages apiece, address particular environmental [problems](https://greenlivingguy.com/2014/03/project-save-our-surf-water-filter-project-in-ben-tre-vietnam-by-mary-osborne/)
of the oceans. Equal in their advocacy of urgency, they are quite unequal in expository
quality.

### Richard Ellis

Renowned for his works on marine biology, writer Richard Ellis observes the plight
of bluefin tuna with his usual cogency and depth. So alas, actor [Leonardo DiCaprio’s](https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/05/leonardo-dicaprio-foundation-supports-community-nonprofit-solar-projects-with-re-volv/)
superficial [save-the-planet](https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/05/ways-to-reduce-your-biggest-bills-and-save-the-planet-in-the-process/)
thoughts barely buoy a sentence. I mean let alone a paragraph according to the author!

Between their extremes of compositional ability range most of the book: Ocean’s 
by Bowermaster’s and his recruits. Some are professional [oceanographers](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/12/on-thin-ice-new-report-identifies13-vulnerable-arctic-treasures-as-ice-melts-industry-moves-in/);
others are nonscientific activists who express their advocacy in avocations for 
rowing, sailing, swimming, or fishing; one battler accosts [Japanese](https://greenlivingguy.com/2014/05/blue-whale-conservation-gets-a-boost/)
[whalers](https://greenlivingguy.com/2014/05/blue-whale-conservation-gets-a-boost/)
on the high seas; and one advances the blue agenda as administrator of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bowermaster concludes with contact information to environmental organizations for
motivated readers. –Gilbert Taylor

#### About the Author

**Jon Bowermaster** is a filmmaker and the author of ten books. A six-time grantee
of the National Geographic Expeditions Council, his 2007-2008 Antarctic expedition
was the final in his _OCEANS 8_ project. Also finally which over the past decade
has taken him and his teams around the world by sea kayak.

When not on the sea, Bowermaster lives in Stone Ridge, New York.

Source: [Jon Bowermaster and Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Oceans-Threats-Seas-Participant-Guide/dp/1586488309)