In the past, information was treasured... These days we live on the shore of an ocean of knowledge... with regular s that threaten out sanity. - Helen Czerski

[E]ven the ocean scientists don't really know all the little stories, the places where it's mattered in history... [S]o I went looking for those.

[T]hey came back with these two photos. One from , which was , which was the Earth rising over the surface of the moon... before they'd landed on the moon, and the other on , the last of the Apollo missions, where they had the... full disk, the fully illuminated disk... . ...That was when people started referring to the Earth as a "Blue Planet" because you couldn't look at that and not see that it was blue... [T]hen we spent 50 years not talking about the blue.

It wasn't my first time at sea. It was my first time in waves that big.