Why We Should Study the Ocean

• There are lots of untapped resources that we can take advantage of from the ocean.  Some examples of this are seafood, oil, and gas reserves under the ocean floor.

• We cannot fully understand and forecast climate changes without completely understanding our ocean.

• We have better maps of Mars than we do of our ocean floors, which means we don't really know what is going on down there.

• Exploration leads to knowledge, and as a human species we should strive to constantly expand our knowledge and grasp of the universe.

• Even history can be uncovered from the ocean.  There might be animals that we have never known about that could possibly be an earlier version of humans.