Exploring the Ocean Planet.

This article discusses the exploration of various oceanic activities. With El Niño kicking up a storm and the motion picture Titanic setting boxoffice records, public awareness of the ocean may have reached an all-time high in 1998. The ocean is far more complicated, compelling, critical and unfortunately threatened than they may have been led to believe. Sixty percent of the world's coral reefs are threatened by pollution, sedimentation and bleaching. As the global population swells toward six billion, pollution and coastal development are overloading ecosystems along vast stretches of shoreline.