I definitely feel connected to the ocean
in the sense that it's been a big part of my life.
I've grown up on the coast and I
spend a lot of my life kind of around the ocean and  in the ocean.
The ocean is so important because it
holds so much life and it plays
a massive part in the climate the weather
the air we breathe,
it feeds populations and communities.
Without a healthy ocean we don't have a healthy planet.
Most connected I feel probably to the
ocean when it's absolutely destroying me,
when a massive set comes through.
I wouldn't say connected is the word,
I would probably say frightened,
but it is a pretty good feeling
when you come out on top of it
and you don't actually drown
yeah a new appreciation of not drowning.
You can enjoy all the stormy weather, all the weather that everyone hates
is perfect for surfing.
Corals are animals,
they are marine invertebrates
and they form calcium carbonate exoskeletons
which form coral reefs.
Corals bleach because of increasing
water temperatures or changes in water temperatures
and they have an algae
that live with them and when the conditions with algae aren't optimal
the algae will leave.
The algae produces nutrients for the coral
and gives the coral its color
so once the algae is left that's why we see white corals
and when a coral is white it is a lot weaker
and more susceptible to disease
and being broken down,
usually when the coral is white it's still alive
and when you see a fuzzy micro algae on the surface of the coral
l it's an indication that the coral is dead.
Things that cause corals to die is tourism, predation, disease.
According to research we have lost over 50% of corals in the last 30 years and
it looks like we could lose all of them in the next 30 years.
They catch a lot of fish even though they are small fish
that's why the amount of fish in the ocean become lower
and lower every year.
I remember in a report in WWF
in 2015 there was 50% in reduction
in fish population and marine species in general.
There was 1,463 population in 492 fish species globally decreased
between the period of 1970 and 2010.
In around 40 years.
If the fish sorce in the ocean is affected
the biodiversity and the balance
in nature would be effected as well.
Direct and indirect effects from the
climate change,
the visible consequence that we might link to the climate change is
the global warming and the change of weather in latest years.
Like we have a very cold winter and a very hot summer.
But in fact it is the
consequence from the climate change.
And besides that, a visible consequence from climate change that we can see
is the melting of ice in the polars which lead to the
increasing of sea level in some countries.
That the glacier in the
Arctic Circle are melting is mainly from the
consequences of climate change,
or in other worlds - greenhouse gases.
Because most of the sources of greenhouse gases come from human activities.
They warm up the
surface temperature,
that's why the temperature in the Polar's increases
every year,
that is leading to the melting of glaciers in those places.
Plastic is a problem because most
plastics are not biodegradable
and typically take more than 400 years to degrade,
but it never fully degrades,
rather breaks down into smaller piece
which are often ingested by marine life
and eventually it ends up in the human food chain.
Although it is difficult to identify
exactly how much plastic there is in the ocean,
scientists estimate eight million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans each year,
adding to the estimated 150 million metric tons currently circulating our oceans.
Tens of thousands of fish, birds, seals and turtles are killed every year
from litter in the marine environment,
as they often mistake plastic bags for food
such as jellyfish.
Plastic once ingested can not be digested
so it stays in the gut and the animal starves to death
or sharp edged pieces kill them by punching holes in internal organs.
I grew up on a sailing boat with my
parents for the first few years of my life
we sailed a lot around the Canary Islands.
I remember waking up one morning, because there were dolphins diving on the side of our boat.
I think that wasprobably the first memory I have of sailing
and I also have a lot of other memories of being on the beach with my family growing up.
