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Oceanographer Sylvia Earle was the first person to walk solo on the bottom of the sea, under a quarter mile of water. She has watched humanity’s enduring fascination with “outer space” while she has delighted in “inner space” — the alien and increasingly endangered worlds beneath Earth’s waters. These frontiers, as Sylvia Earle points out, are our very life-support system. She takes us inside the knowledge she’s gathered from a lifetime of research and literally swimming with sharks. (Original Air Date: June 7, 2012)
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Sylvia Earle is founder of the Sylvia Earle Alliance and Mission Blue. She’s a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. Her books include “The World is Blue,” “Sea Change,” and “Blue Hope: Exploring and Caring for Earth's Magnificent Ocean.”
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Oceanographer Sylvia Earle was the first person to walk solo on the bottom of the sea, under a quarter mile of water. She has watched humanity’s enduring fascination with “outer space” while she has delighted in “inner space” — the alien and increasingly endangered worlds beneath Earth’s waters. These frontiers, as Sylvia Earle points out, are our very life-support system. She takes us inside the knowledge she’s gathered from a lifetime of research and literally swimming with sharks. (Original Air Date: June 7, 2012)
About the Guest:
Sylvia Earle is founder of the Sylvia Earle Alliance and Mission Blue. She’s a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. Her books include “The World is Blue,” “Sea Change,” and “Blue Hope: Exploring and Caring for Earth's Magnificent Ocean.”
Visit our website to read the transcript, download the episode, or listen to the unedited interview: onbeing.org/programs/sylvia-earle-her-deepness-feb2018
Visit our On Being Classics Library, where this episode is featured:
onbeing.org/libraries/classics
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Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
Twitter: twitter.com/onbeing
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Newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
OUR PODCASTS
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
This Movie Changed Me: onbeing.org/series/this-movie-changed-me
Becoming Wise: onbeing.org/series/becoming-wise
