Mission Blue Page #2

It was just heaven for a kid...

for me.

It will always be that way in my

mind, it's just this paradise.

Happening now, an

explosion and fire

devastate a massive oil rig

off the Louisiana coast.

Last week's deadly

oil rig blowout

remains unchecked tonight.

And it's raising fears of an

environmental disaster in the making.

As long as the oil is flowing

down here in the Gulf,

this will simply keep growing

and growing and growing,

and they have no idea

where the end will be.

How'd you feel? What was

your first reaction?

It was shocking.

And it just got worse

as the news unfolded.

Of course, the tragedy was

the human lives lost.

Then this gush of oil wouldn't stop,

wouldn't stop, wouldn't stop!

When I was a child

living in Florida,

there was only one offshore oil

well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Today, there are more

than 33,000 drill sites.

All of us... we are the beneficiaries

of having burned through fossil fuels.

Coal, gas, oil.

But at what cost?

I really come to

speak for the ocean.

We put billions into what takes

us into the skies above...

and it's paying off handsomely.

We've neglected the ocean...

and it's costing us dearly.

The thing that's impressive

to me about Sylvia

is that she's not afraid

to point fingers...

and say, "You know what you're

doing, and it's wrong."

You know, she's kind of the

Joan of Arc of the oceans.

- Go!

- She's the one that's out in front

leading the charge in the

fight to save the ocean.

And she's made it her life's purpose

in the last couple of decades

to make sure everybody else understands

what's going on and why it's important.

It's life itself that the

ocean is delivering.

This is a turning point.

If we continue business as

usual, we're in real trouble.

Her passion for the ocean

comes from the fact that...

like myself and like many

of us who were young...

in a younger world

around the ocean,

we saw a place that was

more full of life.

It was... beyond frustrating.

It was agonizing.

Because I know what's

in the Gulf of Mexico.

I just could flash back to times when

I'd be diving in the Gulf of Mexico...

when it was a place...

an underwater paradise.

And to know that it was vulnerable, that

it could be right in the path of...

of this...

This avalanche.

It's just hard to express.

YOUR BOOK, THE WORLD IS BLUE: How

Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One.

That's a bold statement. My fate

and the ocean's are the same fate?

I don't live in the ocean.

I ain't got gills.

Why should I care about

what happens in the ocean?

It's deep, it's dark,

people drown in it

and it's full of sharks

who want to eat us.

Or don't you watch Shark Week?

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