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When I was a kid we thought the ocean was
too big to fail, but now we know better.

National parks protect America's
natural treasures on the land.

The same must be
done for the ocean.

It is a frontier in peril.

On the hundredth anniversary of
our National Park Service, a pioneering

expedition travels from sea to
shining sea to help inspire one man.

A great honor to meet you.

To create blue parks
across an unseen wilderness.

If we're not careful it'll
slip through our fingers.

We need all of it
for us to survive.

We have a chance that
will never come again.

Factory scale taking of wild fish
is an example of what's at stake.

Schooling in the trillions, men
Hayden filter the Atlantic and Gulf.

They are so crucial to
the diet of bigger fish, they

are known as the most
important fish in the sea.

Yet they are targeted by the
men Hayden reduction industry.

Not to be eaten by humans, but
rendered into fertilizer and chicken feed.

Just like the Bible says.

It says in greed and time you will destroy
your own earth and that's what's happening.

It's in front your eyes.

All you got to do is open
your eyes and see it.

It's heartbreaking.

Heartbreaking.

This is in our blood.

All the fish and shrimp
and ice and we do it all.

It's just coming
to an end like that.

The local small boat
fishermen have a powerful ally.

She spent thousands
of hours underwater.

Scientist, explorer and
conservationist, Dr. Sylvia Earle.

Change is happening fast.

We're losing coral reefs.

We're losing fish in the ocean and whole
ecosystems are coming apart, unraveling.

The chemistry of the planet
is being affected by what

we're putting into the ocean
or taking out of the ocean.

It's a different world.

Pokey boats, they go out
there and take in a whole school.

That's right.

They don't always catch pokey.

But there should
be limits on all that.

There should be and there
should be some places,

it seems to me, we
should just leave alone.

It's like national parks.

You don't cut the trees, you don't
shoot the squirrels, you don't...

They don't have that now?

No, we don't.

Offshore America is
larger than the 50 states, but

nearly all of it is open to
the taking of ocean wildlife.

Now we know what we could not know when I
was a kid, that the ocean governs climate,

absorbs much of the
heat, regulates temperature.

It's 97% of Earth's water
is out there in the ocean.

And... And we have a chance
that will never come again.

A luxury for the sharks.

Why do sharks bite
people so much?

They don't.

I'm Max Kennedy.

My love of the sea
comes through my family.

I'm thrilled to be joining
Sylvia on a voyage to forge an

undersea version of America's
best idea, the national parks.

More than a century ago, we killed
every great auk, every passenger pigeon,

every eastern elk, and
nearly the last buffalo.

The turning point was photography
and images that galvanized a nation.

Then in 1871, 28-year-old Civil War
veteran William Henry Jackson became

official photographer of the Hayden,
Wyoming expedition and made history.

Jackson's stunning images
inspired President Ulysses S.

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National Monument is the
symbol of natural wonders.

One such vital resource is Cash's Ledge, an
undersea mountain range brimming with life.

A magnet for tuna,
sharks, minke whales,

endangered right whales,
and humpbacks like these.

If protected, Cash's Ledge
would become New England's first

national monument and a
refuge for life vanishing elsewhere.

Opposing the refuge,
an industrial fishing

industry that has
emptied the Gulf of Maine.

About two years ago, there was a stock
assessment that showed that Gulf of Maine

cod populations were about
3-4% their target biomass.

I'm sorry?

Yeah, their populations
have plummeted.

96% below where they should be.

There is a sustainable
population at a point

at which you can take
a certain amount of fish.

If you overshoot that limit, then slowly
you're just going to watch the population

decline because they
can't produce enough

individuals to replace
the ones that we've taken.

Our goal?

Support the scientific case
for protection with photography.

And no one does that
better than Brian Skerry,

one of the world's best
underwater photographers.

I grew up in this small town, a
working class sort of blue collar town.

The notion of being a National Geographic
photographer or being an ocean explorer

were probably as far away from
anyone's radar as you could imagine.

It's a real pleasure
to meet you finally.

It's so great to see you.

Thanks for coming out.

I've seen a bunch of your stuff.

I'm so excited.

I sent you a book
back last year.

When I began diving in
New England, I can remember

walking off beaches and
seeing big shoals of fish.

And I don't see
those things anymore.

Cash's Ledge harbors
an unexpected treasure.

An underwater forest 80
miles off the coast of Maine.

There's nothing like this.

I mean, you come down and you
see this undulating bottom of kelp.

And in the distance you see schools of
pollock and you see cod and some of the

cod are red in color because they
are blending in with this red kelp.

You get this sense that
this can't be New England.

This must be some
tropical paradise that I

need to journey days
on an aircraft to get to.

But it's not.

It's right here.

When I am in a place
like that, I'm trying to make

pictures that they can
see that it is special.

I want them to
connect with a codfish.

It was an experience of a lifetime to
dive in and to see for myself what some

scientists had been
raving about for years.

There's a fish
looking right at me.

I felt like a dancer.

These golden scars
surrounding me.

This place rocks.

This place is special.

It's a source of renewal.

A source of recovery.

One of the most beautiful
dives I've ever had in my life.

Yeah, hypnotic.

You know, I mean, you're sort of just
in this trance in this cathedral setting.

It's like walking
through a temple.

I see Cassius Ledge as kind of a
Noah's Ark for the offshore Gulf of Maine.

I mean, think of it.

It's got practically one of
every species and one of every

type of offshore habitat all
in a really concentrated area.

Well, let's hope
it has two of each.

There's an opportunity
here to look at Cassius Ledge

as the Yellowstone of
the North Atlantic Ocean.

This is like an oasis.

It's what remains of what
used to be everywhere.

If we're not careful, it'll
slip through our fingers.

It'll go forever.

And it could happen
without anyone knowing it.

That's why we need to show them,
because once they see it, they care.

We head 200 miles southeast of
Cassius Ledge to another fragile oasis.

The deep canyons and seamounts
along the continental shelf.

Most of life on Earth
is in the deep ocean.

Too deep for divers, but not
for an unmanned NOAA rover.

You would think the very depths
would safeguard the seamounts.

But there's a new threat.

Deep sea mining.

With machines that
can chew up ocean

habitats before we even
know what we've lost.

Life that deserves protection.

At my mother's home, we join Brian
and his new apprentice, my nephew Fim.

We'd love to.

Because you're kind of
like a modern-day Jackson.

Well, I don't know about that.

We have an almost
more difficult task than

Jackson had because
we're starting from scratch.

We have to show that
these places, A, exist,

that they're vital to
the health of the planet.

So we've got a
lot of work to do.

We have to plan carefully.

We have to plan very carefully.

The last thing we need is
something to go wrong on this project.

I'm so glad to see you.

I do.

Really.

What a pleasure.

No, so nice for me.

Thank you.

I'm still a little bit salty.

You know, we were diving.

It's an extension of
Acadia National Park.

It comes close enough
to the surface that

sunlight strikes this
mound out in the ocean.

And there's a forest of kelp.

Who would dare go anywhere
near the water with you?

All of your family.

We need to show people,
look, there's still reason for hope.

We're the agent of change.

And so we can be the
agent of positive change.

That's the key.

And to get that news
and do something about it.

Sylvia recruits an
indispensable crew.

The inheritors of the Earth.

Enlisting teenagers to be
ambassadors for the ocean.

To go explore the
ocean and be witnesses.

And tell their parents.

Tell their teachers.

Tell their mayors.

Their senators.

Their presidents.

And get them out there.

No child left dry.

Rounding out the team
are two activists from

Washington's Benning Terrace
public housing community.

Rob Edwards and Ashley Dawkins.

So exciting.

Man, I never, ever
experienced the ocean.

Our expedition to create a
blue necklace of protected

treasures reaches the
troubled waters of the Caribbean.

Amid an overfished and
warming sea lies a lonely refuge.

The world's first blue
national monument.

Created by my uncle,
President John F.

Kennedy.

And it is an interesting biological fact
that all of us have in our veins the exact

same percentage of salt in our
blood that exists in the ocean.

We are tied to the ocean.

And when we go back to the sea, we
are going back from whence we came.

Actually, I was 11.

There was a dedication
to the new park.

So my father brought me out, along
with a lot of government officials.

Kennedy was one of them.

It was a beautiful day.

As a Cruis'ian, I am very proud to be
the superintendent for this park that was

protected and designated some 64 years
ago by the President of the United States.

This monument was expanded
in 2001 by President Clinton.

It became the first marine protected
area which means no fishing at all.

No take in the monument.

But some of the fish swim
out of the protected area.

And when they do,
they can be caught.

These are nice fry fish.

Local parrotfish.

It was really exciting to be down
in the Virgin Islands with them.

Rob and Ashley, had
never seen the ocean.

So for me to be a witness of
their first view was a way for

me to see the ocean as if I
were seeing it for the first time.

This is what real divers do.

Just a bit of saliva.

Otherwise known as spit.

And you rub it into your
mask then it is less likely to fog.

It's foggy.

I was very afraid getting in
the ocean for the first time.

But I had to test my fish.

I jumped.

Because I thought it was
going to be like the bottom.

But there wasn't.

I'm like, wait, am I drowning?

Am I drowning?

I'm never seen someone
learn how to snorkel that quickly.

Really is not a swimmer at all.

Sylvia's a real life mermaid.

I feel like she would
live there if she could.

What did she say like,
no child should be left...

dry?

That's what she said.

Yeah.

What was like the
most memorable part?

Just seeing it, like for myself.

It was a good feeling, just
being out in the open water.

I felt like free, kind of.

But something was missing.

Grouper.

By the 1980s, we had eaten
almost all of St. Croix's grouper.

Grouper, we really
don't catch grouper.

Grouper is more like
endangered species.

We barely can see those.

My father used to catch two,
three, bring them home, you know?

Big size.

But now it's like, you
don't see them most.

So fishermen turned to parrotfish,
the beautiful keepers of the reef.

These are nice frying fish.

That's why we call
them local parrotfish.

Okay.

All the restaurants
in St. Croix buy these.

Chicken shop buy them, too.

He takes a hundred
pound every week.

I really don't know much.

I just catch them and make a
little dollar to survive, you know?

We are just beginning to
understand that loss of grouper

and parrotfish has a domino
effect, and kills the reef.

It's happening so fast, it doesn't take an
old-timer to remember the good old days.

In just my short lifetime of 19 years,
I've been able to see immense change in

the, at least the one
habitat that I've been

able to dive on since I
was four with my dad.

The way I remember it is this absolutely
magical place, these immaculate reefs,

such vibrant color, no
matter where you went, a

treasure trove of fish
and incredible ecosystem.

But now going back the last
three years, it looks like a pile

of rubble after a building was
demolished in New York City.

It's all gray and white and
crumbled, and the fish are

gone and and that's only
and that's it in 12 years.

Yeah.

The waters around Buck Island are
an oasis in a fast-expanding wasteland,

fueled by climate
change and overfishing.

I wish I had seen
what you saw up here.

No.

As a boy.

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there were no fish here.

Expanding the refuge to embrace the
devastated reefs outside of the monument,

will give the natural
systems a chance to recover.

People say I came
from a different planet.

I did.

The planet was so
different when I arrived.

90% of the big
fish already gone.

But the great news is
we can turn the corner.

We can restore.

Brian's photography
is such a powerful tool.

And now he's
unleashing the children.

Trying to tell a story with
pictures is your message,

what you're trying to
communicate, your vision.

I proposed a story on something
called the global fish crisis.

It's a thresher shark
that was dead in a gill net.

And as I framed it up in
my camera's viewfinder,

it sort of struck
me as a crucifixion.

And I thought it might
give some empathy.

There's a difference
between just making a

pretty picture, and
being a photojournalist.

As an underwater photographer,
we don't have the luxury of using

telephoto lenses and wait in some
blind for an elusive animal to wander by,

you know, a week down the road.

It's really a testament to the
animals that allow us into their world.

They inevitably do.

You know, if you're patient, you
don't chase them, they will come to you.

We live in a world today
where communication and

sharing of images is so
much easier than it ever was.

Get those images out, there and
tell the story that you want to tell.

By doing that, we can
collectively reach a much broader

audience than we would if I
was just doing a magazine story.

Just get out and do it.

Run

right back from Carolina, and
I'd run right back to Tennessee.

Cause I can't forget the times I held
you in all those songs you sang with me.

I started my turtle photography
here about three nights ago.

So I'm doing these very long
exposures under the moonlight.

And it ends up looking
almost like daytime.

I mean, it's still kind
of spooky and primal

looking and you've got
this dinosaur-like creature.

They get to be about 900
pounds whenever they're adults.

900 pounds.

All of them don't survive.

To me, it just like, brought me
back to like where I come from.

Because like my
neighborhood is that way.

Like you're, you find not comfort, but you
become okay that not everyone will make it.

It just hit home for me.

Sylvia helped me
see a bigger picture.

Unless we keep the ocean
from dying, none of us will make it.

The Gulf of Mexico faces the
same threat as the Caribbean.

Overfishing and climate change.

The Gulf of Mexico is resilient.

But it's like World
War II and Europe.

If you didn't know there
had been a war, you

might not even know
that there had been one.

Unless you'd been there before.

Unless you lived through it.

And Dave Palmer
has lived through it.

What are the places that you
would choose for protection?

And they nail it.

They know.

Real fear.

...fishermen, and
whose livelihoods, whose

life really depends on
respect for the ocean.

They know what it
takes to make fish.

Breeding areas, feeding
areas, not taking too much.

That's a bosta.

Dave.

Hey.

How are you?

How are you doing?

Good to see you.

Yeah, it's been a long time.

Like you, I spent my
early years on the Gulf.

So important to the whole country,
you know, we just take it for granted,

treating it like an
endless source.

You got everybody
fishing wherever they want.

They don't really have no
sanctuary where it's not fished.

It's not going to last.

It's going to eventually
run out, sooner or later.

My hope is they put these spots all around
the coast where you can fish, period.

Put a triangle here, put a circle
over here, put a rectangle over there.

You want to save
the nursery areas.

Right.

You want to save the
feeding areas, breeding areas.

If you want to have
tuna, the last thing you

want to do is kill them
while they're spawning.

Yeah.

That's the only thing
that's going to help.

Common sense.

This is where the bluefin tuna spawn,
that drive in this amazingly intact system.

Bluefin and other tuna spawn in the Gulf of
Mexico in special places like Ewing Bank.

Sylvia dreams of seeing protected
areas large enough to restore the Gulf.

Hope spots, she calls them.

Look at this.

It's an ocean full
of whale sharks.

I can't even count
the number of fins.

As soon as I think I have
a number, six more pop up.

Scary.

This pattern is unique,
like our fingerprints.

Photographs will go straight
into an international database.

These fish is like 20
times as big as me.

But when I seen that they was not worried
about me, my fears went out the window.

So we just pulled a plankton
net to see what the whale sharks

were feeding on, and like
we suspected, it's full of eggs.

Tunny, a species of tuna,
spawn in the depths below.

The eggs are naturally
buoyant and float to the surface.

It's a crucial, age-old feeding
site for the largest fish in the sea.

Ewing Bank is so special because you
have a combination of breeding and feeding.

You get the breeding of the Tunny, but
you get the feeding of the whale sharks.

Six years ago, we were out
at this exact spot, and we had

our largest documented
encounter of whale sharks in U.S.

waters with over 100 animals.

We put out some satellites
to see what they were doing.

We looked at the tags and
looked at the connectivity from here

and other places in the Caribbean
and elsewhere in the world.

Of the world's 14 known congregation
sites, Ewing Bank is the only one in

American waters, an obvious
candidate for protection.

Words is hard to explain once you get
in the water and get right next to them.

It's like you can almost
feel their heartbeat.

It's a very, very sacred place.

These fish are telling
us they need help.

So does life in another
sacred realm, the waters around

Nihihau, the westernmost
inhabited Hawaiian island.

And the people who first came
to Hawaii, their descendants

cared deeply about not just
the land, but also the ocean.

They are, essentially,
people of the ocean.

My family hails from
the island of Nihihau.

The Nihihau people believe that
once somebody in our lineage passes,

their soul take on the form of a shark
and plays as a guardian for our people,

and there's a lot of sharks
that swim around Nihihau,

and they protect the island
from outsiders, from harm.

First few frames, look, and then
we can make adjustments as we go.

Fantastic.

All right.

Here in Hawaiian waters, the oldest
living animals have been discovered.

Parals that are more
than 5,000 years old.

Two, one, go!

So we're diving into history
when we dive into the ocean here.

We're in a place called Hale'ohono,
which means house of the turtle.

There are a number of places in the
ocean where animals go to be clean.

They get parasites and
algae and things on their body.

And other animals eat that.

...off of them, but it's
this symbiotic relationship.

I saw a massive
moray eel down there.

Yeah, we went to this other little cave
that we found, and we both poked our heads

in, and then out comes this
gigantic moray eel flaring its teeth.

There's a seal!

There's a seal!

Monk seals in the
Hawaiian Islands...

they're right on the edge.

I got to see one in her lair.

She had a little whiskered face.

Just lounging around,
holding her breath.

Protect the monk seals,
the turtles, the coral reefs.

It's all the little things.

By saving them, you save
big chunks of the ocean.

And you save humankind as well.

Niihau is the gateway to Eden, a
protected area called Papahanaumokuakea.

Created as a national
monument by President George W.

Bush, it was then the world's
largest protected habitat.

I want to thank Sylvia Earle.

She sat me down and gave me
a pretty good lecture about life.

In 2006, when Papahanaumokuakea
was first established, it was the biggest,

and now it's number
10, and so that kind of

really inspired other
countries to up their game.

So maybe we can do
the same thing again.

That's the goal.

Expanding the monument to the
200-mile limit of American waters.

The biggest sanctuary
on land or sea.

I am in strong support of
increasing the size of the monument.

There's nothing else
like this in the world.

We need to protect it.

Taking steps that would be a model
for other places that we don't control.

It's this bold decision that we're
counting on, President Obama to make,

and providing the best
possible seafood for all of us.

Opposing it?

The longline fishing industry.

I am strongly opposed to the
proposed expansion of the monument.

There is no scientific evidence to support
any additional conservation benefits to be

gained by expanding the no-fishing
zone beyond its current limit.

The reason for the protection is
protecting it from future threats.

Because human population is growing, human
exploitation of the environment is growing.

And there will be increasing pressure in
the years and the decades and even the

centuries to come to
expand out into exploiting

areas that haven't
previously been exploited.

And the problem is that
so much of the bottom

of the sea is out of
sight of most people.

They don't realize how much biodiversity
is and how important that biodiversity is,

not just to us, but the
whole future of humanity.

And a lot of those
organisms on the bottom

of the sea haven't even
been discovered yet.

The ocean is so little
known that scientists

discover thousands of
new species every year.

Richard and his fellow explorers use
helium mixed gas to venture into the cold,

twilight world between 200
and 500 feet deep, finding an

average of 12 to 15 new
species per hour of exploration.

I've been privileged
to be with kids.

To see the world
through their eyes.

I'm going deep
down into the waters.

Yeah, I'm nervous.

Don't get me
wrong, I am nervous.

I'm going to be with
Sylvia so I know I'm good.

The bottom of the ocean.

See how that is.

Pisces 5, KOK, do you copy?

Roger.

Hats are shut.

Ready to dive, dive, dive.

Over.

Roger.

Hats are shut.

Ready to dive, dive, dive.

Sylvia last dived here nearly four decades
ago using a special diving suit called Jim.

There is a new tool in the sea.

It moves with the ponderous
rhythms of a mechanical monster.

Her question, can scientists use the
Jim suit for dives beyond a thousand feet?

If successful, she will be the
first woman to walk the sea floor.

Beyond one thousand feet.

I see it.

Sylvia is looking
for signs of change.

When you're up near the
surface, it's kind of light blue.

But as you go down, you
see the pretty shades of blue.

And the blue gets
darker and darker.

Then it gets pitch black.

It's really black and dropping.

There's no ambient light.

It's like a

different world.

Yeah.

Actually, our world
is a different world.

This is normal.

New life comes to light.

An unknown coral.

Chris doesn't even know
what species this thing is.

This is the only place
I've really seen it this far.

I've seen some of the
northwestern Rhode Islands.

It's scattered everywhere.

This is like a magic carpet.

Oh my goodness.

Beautiful.

Except it's better
than any old carpet.

It's alive.

It's alive.

Flying carpet.

Sylvia never stopped
looking out the window.

She was just excited to see things
that she hadn't seen in so long.

So we're right over the ray.

The ray just ate something.

He just trapped one of those little
fish under his... That's unbelievable.

He did.

He got one of those polymyxia.

I see five.

I see four.

Do you copy?

We just watched these
two rays eat polymyxia.

Here comes the ray.

Okay, that's the
first observation.

I've heard anybody say that.

That's really interesting.

Took a kid with
fresh eyes to notice

something that has
been happening all along.

Because after Finn
pointed it out, we looked

and we saw it
happening all around us.

A little eel just swam
under... Oh, did you see that?

Yeah, I got it on film.

Oh!

For Sylvia, one
question looms above all.

What is the state
of this special place?

I had witnessed the forests
of bamboo coral in 1979.

The good news for me
was they're still there.

Since I began exploring the oceans in the
1950s, about half the coral reefs are gone.

But the deep coral reefs
still provide reasons for hope.

On her first dive
here, Sylvia saw corals

1,200 feet deep,
thriving in all directions.

In utter darkness.

This coral emits living
light when touched.

Bioluminescence.

A marvel of nature
never filmed without lights.

To see it as nature intended takes
a revolutionary low-light camera.

Shooting at 4 million ISO.

Wow, look at that.

The first color video of
coral bioluminescence.

Wow, look at that.

That's a beauty.

Not everyone has
seen the Grand Canyon.

But Grand Canyon and
other beautiful places are

valued as treasures by
the people of the country.

As people come to understand
the cliffs, the canyons, the

wildlife that are in the deep
sea, that will be valued too.

Gosh, this coral is so slimy.

That's the critter itself.

Sylvia's mysterious specimen.

We don't know how old these are.

We don't know
what species this is.

Who are you?

Where did you come from?

Who's your mom?

Who's your dad?

I apologize for bringing
you out of the ocean.

Yeah.

We're all sea creatures.

It's like the creatures
who live in the sea

all life, including
humankind, needs the ocean.

The ocean now needs us.

There's a blue
country out there.

And nowhere is that more obvious
than in the Hawaiian Islands.

I think the hope is that President
Obama will expand the monument.

And with that, I think we're making
a huge contribution to the globe.

I implore you all, please,
understand the real science.

Don't just wave your arms.

Understand what's
really going on.

And I assure you, if you
look at it rationally and

objectively, you will agree the
science supports the expansion.

Mahalo.

For a lifetime, Sylvia
has dreamed and fought

to see protection of the
ocean become a reality.

And now, an epic announcement.

We've designated national monuments
from Maine to Ohio to California.

And just last week, I created the
world's largest marine preserve.

By dribbling the size of our monument,
this is an area twice the size of Texas.

It's going to be protected
and allows us to save and

study the fragile ecosystem
threatened by climate change.

Tomorrow, I'm going to travel to
the Midway Atoll to see it for myself.

Before it was a national wildlife
refuge, Midway Atoll was a U.S.

naval base.

And the site of one of the most
decisive battles in American history.

Where we're standing
right now, Midway, this

was considered a turning
point in World War II.

They're basically kids
flying the airplanes.

Kids fighting the war.

Putting their lives on the line.

We're in a different
kind of war today.

It's not one country
against another.

It's humanity against
the rest of biodiversity.

The biggest problems we're facing right
now has to do with the changing climate.

We have a chance that will never
come again to stabilize things.

Protecting the natural
systems that are still

in good shape and
restoring what we can.

We are the natural world.

Yeah, we are.

Thank you.

We've socialized ourselves to think
we're not even animals, but we are.

Four billion years of development
is what allows us to survive.

And if we think we can change that
in 100 years, we are sorely mistaken.

So I quote you at the end
of the presentations I give.

What we do in the next 10 years will impact
what happens in the next 10,000 years.

We are at a pivotal
moment in history.

Now is the time we must act.

Doctor, how are you?

I am in awe of anybody who's
done so much for ocean conservation.

That's a good start.

Listen, it's better
than a good start.

You've done amazing work.

I see one of your
constituents has come up here.

I noticed.

Doesn't seem that excited
about meeting the president.

Which is how it should be.

Why it's so important for us
to preserve these for the future.

You know, you've got a
monk seal in the background.

One of the most endangered
marine species in the world.

You've got 7,000 different
marine species here.

Many of whom are
unique to this ecosystem.

And all of this can be
impacted by climate change.

This isn't just a matter of
quote-unquote tree-huggers.

Fish-huggers.

Or fish-huggers.

Or coral-huggers.

All of us depend on
these ecosystems.

And they're incredibly...

In some ways they're incredibly
resilient if we do the right thing.

But they're also really fragile
when we do the wrong thing.

People have to know.

It's not enough to just talk
about... policy in the abstract.

People have to
see it and feel it.

And be able to understand...

what it is that
we're fighting for.

And why this is so important.

We dive in to celebrate
while Brian captures the first...

underwater photograph
of an American president.

Just two weeks later, President
Obama takes another giant step.

Creating the Northeast Canyons and
Seamounts National Marine Monument.

The first in the Atlantic Ocean.

The mission to secure
the future is gaining recruits.

So the goggles won't fog
up when you go underwater.

You gotta spit in them.

Defog it.

Okay.

I see we cleaned up this river.

Do you think that we
could clean up the world?

Oh, it's not if.

Or could we.

We must.

We have no more urgent tasks.

Our problems are man-made.

Therefore they can
be solved by man.

We all inhabit
this small planet.

We all breathe the same air.

We all cherish our
children's future.

And we are all mortal.