DEEP March/April 2014 Green Issue | Page 35

A turtle at rest, Kona Coast. In 1996 Marine Biologist tagged a young female loggerhead turtle named Adelitha and released her off the coast of Mexico. She made it to the nesting grounds of the shores of Japan. What this did was prove the circulatory migration pattern of that species and many others and illustrate “Connection through the Commons”. Former head of the Ca State Lifeguards, Jim Birdsoul holds a 100-pound Yellowfin Tuna caught off Kona, Hawaii. Tuna which are at the top of the food chain are notorious for biosequestering of heavy metals. Last year Jean Michel Cousteau and I were talking about the Nuclear disaster and how it potentially could save the endangered Bluefin Tuna by making it unfit for human consumption. But the acceptable contamination level was altered by the USG and raised. Kona Coast dive. When the Apollo astronauts looked back on Earth from space it appeared as a blue marble hanging in the firmament. When we as an ocean people, look back on the land, our perspective is equally as: grand, valuable and related. Sea and space, they do connect in many ways. A bountiful meal of clams and oysters. Filter feeders are lower in the food chain and some of the first to acquire uptake of contaminants within an impacted marine or estuarial ecosystem. DEEPZINE.com 35