When We Explore The Deep Sea, We Are Exploring For Our Own Survival

Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. In 1953, on the heels of a discovery of a second coelacanth specimen in the Comoros Islands off Madagascar's coast, J.L.B. Smith, the man who described the species, wrote in the Times of London: "We have in the past assumed that we have mastery not only of the land but of the sea... We have not. Life goes on there just as it did from the beginning. Man's influence is as yet but a passing shadow. This discovery means that we may find other ...