Seven-tenths of the Earth's surface is covered by water yet, in an era when we can send probes to the outer reaches of the solar system, the ocean remains relatively unknown.

The people who have contributed to this book are sea lovers, and thier combined knowledge and passion has produced a unique publication. Their stories will take you on a voyage into a little-known universe where fish fly and huge beasts float through a fluid space we struggle to understand. Side-by-side text, amazing pictures illustrate thses wondrous beasts and the worlds they inhabit.

While the contributors to the book hope to share with you the awe and wonder they feel when they contemplate the ocean's vastness, they also want to make you aware of the accelerating decimation of this natural wonder. Now is the time to act before we ruin this vast repository of unknown riches.

The intensity of our use of our natural environment has become such that there is now hardly any place on the surface of the Earth- even in the depths of the oceans- that has not been altered in some profound way by human's activities. We have a chance, and unless we take it, the last great whale will never know that the song he sings is a requiem to his vanished kindred. Only we, the perpetrators of their passing, will mourn for the inhabitants of the once-living seas.

Mankind is linked to the ocean, its warm salt flows through our veins. It is part of us, its soul is our soul, its future our own- our duty is to manage it well.

So join us on a voyage into the blue.

-- Valerie Taylor

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