“Fifty million buffalo once roamed the rolling green prairies of North America. Gunners reduced them to near-extinction. Now, hunters cut from the same cloth are at work on the rolling blue prairies of the sea and, already, the big fish – including miracles like thousand-pound, warm-blooded bluefin tuna – are 90 percent gone. What we regret happening on land may again happen in the sea. Those who care about wildlife should get to know about oceans.”

– Carl Safina

Indeed, the ocean is a wilderness many of us don’t often think about, but at the same time it is often-photographed and for good reason.  While looking at these images and thinking about the healing properties of what you see above the water, I invite you to consider the ecological importance what lies below the tide.

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