However, the ocean and water mean much more to me than the typical marine biologist and have been influential in defining me as a person. Since I was 6 months old I could swim and loved the water. I feel at home whenever I am in water, and this comfort lead me to take up competitive swimming and bodyboarding. I spent thousands of hours in a pool and in the ocean and these hours culminated into obtaining third at nationals, a sponsorship for bodyboarding and becoming a Division-I collegiate swimmer.
However, my real passion in life is the ocean. The ocean covers 72% and rising of this small planet and is home to most of the globe's biomass (living matter), and biodiversity. With population growth, pollution, global warming, and the overexploitation of the oceans resources our beautiful oceans are being destroyed.
Education I believe is the key to saving our oceans worldwide. If governments won't help to save our oceans than we as people must learn how to protect them. I want my children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy the ocean as I have throughout my life.
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| Written by Cody Miller; B.S in Marine Biology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa |
