and teachers. The Virtual Dive is a 360-degree tour of
the oceans, navigated by using the computer keyboard.
Daily Catch summarizes current news related to the
high seas: my favorite article recounted the tale of a tiny
Columbus crab (planus minutes), just 10 mm long, native
to the the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda, which drifted
away thousands of miles along the Gulf Stream and
washed ashore on the Chesil beach, Dorset, England.
Ungoverned though they may be, the high seas
are endangered by individual countries' activities:
acidification from carbon pollution, overfishing, piracy,
plastic pollution and illegal dumping. It is TerraMar's
mission to raise awareness of this and, through its
inventive website, encourage individual engagement,
responsibility and commitment to reversing exploitation
of the High Seas. In a recent guest blog for Maximpact
Blog, Ghislaine Maxwell wrote, "Despite the ocean's
essential role to our food security and to trade, its value
and importance are undervalued. The ocean is at the
bottom of our consciousness, the last on anyone's
philanthropic giving list and the least important in terms
of government policy." TerraMar was created to build
a global community of citizens to ask governments
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