AMAKUA VIDEO, staunch supporter of marine education and ocean conservation, announces:
This Saturday, June 9th, Save Our Seas, Kauai’s well-established marine education and conservation non-profit organization, hosts the 4th International Ocean Conference.
According to the Ocean Conservancy, volunteers collected 7 million pounds of trash along our US coastlines within only 3 hours (!) during one single September day in 2006 - a sad record & breath-taking symbol of our lust for self-destruction.
The harsh truth is: we all share the responsibility for this high level of ocean contamination. As Kelly Shall (Ocean Conservancy) puts it: “…nearly 80% of the trash comes from land-based activities…â€
In Hawaii and other sensitive coastal & marine areas we also have to consider extra-pollution of our beautiful shorelines due to heavy ship-traffic, especially from cruise ships. Not that everything is bad around those operations, but willful dumping of wastewater close to shore, or straight from land, is not a very conscientious act-of-duty, not to our “touristsâ€, not to “localsâ€, not to anything living underneath the sea. A no-brainer, one would say, and yet …
So, in case you are in Hawaii, come all and join Save Our Seas on Kauai this Saturday, June 9th! Enjoy lively activities to celebrate our oceans, and find lots of valuable information while talking to famous people from the science world and show-biz!
Invited is the public audience to witness famous scientists and public figures to showcase what each of us can do to sustain our marine resources. But it is also very much about having fun, and to celebrate our ocean’s life in abundance!
June 9th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
As a person who dearly loves the ocean and worked at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii with four bottlenosed dolphins, I am sincerely grateful to Save Our Seas and to Amakua Video for bringing ocean awareness to people through Underwater Videography and Award-Winning DVDs & Documentaries. The four dolphins I worked with were named Akeakamai (Lover of Wisdom), Phoenix (Rising From the Ashes), Hiapo and Elele. They have all since passed on, but they forever changed the landscape of my life and I hold them up in loving memory with every thought of our time together…
Dolphins are every bit as dynamic as human beings. They are as emotional, insightful, contemplative and complex as human beings. They share all the same senses as we have as well as a sixth sense of echolocation - the ability to “map the terrain” in the ocean environment with “mental pictures with x-ray like vision” based on acoustic bounce back frequencies.
This means they are sensitive enough to “see” a fetus in the womb of a mother before the mother even knows she’s pregnant. They can “see” abnormalities and ailments in humans and amongst themselves and they echolocate on these areas with great attention and clarity. They can change the vibrational frequency of the human brain by changing the brain waves from delta to theta waves (like a deep meditative state) even when simply swimming with them in the water. Their communication structure is as complex as humans (complex sentences), and they each have their own sinebubble (or name) that they can spell out in bubbles to identify themselves. Plus, THE LOVE with them filled me up to overflowing… Feeling the love is amazing when you establish a long-term relationship with them… And those relationships have all the subtle nuances of the most compex human relationships we experience and then some. I’ve only tapped the surface here…
Akeakamai taught me unbridled joy and exhileration full of laughter. Phoenix taught me that we all need to accept and love ourselves where we are at in any given moment in our lives. Hiapo taught me that even the most rambunctious boy has a soft heart and can be tamed when you find his passion and in his case it was music. Elele taught me to be playful and that showing up, being congruent on the outside with what is going on inside, being present and being your true self makes us lovable. Again, I’ve only tapped the surface here…
When I worked at “KBMML” also known as “The Lab” we used to go sit outside next to the harbor where all the boats were. We’d see things like 6-pack plastic rings and straws and cigarette butts floating in the water. Did you know that the 6-pack plastic rings can suffocate turtles, birds, and smaller sea mammals? Did you know that straws can get lodged in a dolphin’s throat leading to starvation? And we all know that cigarette butts are just plain old nasty knarly. Plastic grocery store bags also pose a huge risk to ocean life for suffocation, etc. And that is only on the level of garbage. The gas and oil that forms on top of the water is enough to really make you wonder. Plus, boats also purge their sewage systems in the water. Think of all the boats in the harbor…
We are responsible to our ocean friends. Being sensitive and cleaning up after ourselves is a very important element as we SAVE OUR SEAS so we can enjoy our oceans and our kids can enjoy the oceans for years and years to come. Remember our seas come back to us in the form of food, rest and relaxation, education, entertainment, and the beautiful ecological balance of a rich array of marine life. The more we take care of it and do our part the more we will be able to enjoy in the years to come… To Saving Our Seas!!! :)CC
Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
CEO http://www.Strategic-Living.com
Co-Founder http://www.Geckoline.US
Founder http://www.LivingWithLyme.com