“We take the oceans for granted. The amount of money spent on oceanographic research is trivial compared to space. How weird is it that we can drive a robot around the surface of Mars and can’t fix a leak in our backyard that’s going to impact millions of lives around the Gulf Coast?”

David Gallo of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said that. He was talking to Andy Revkin about the lessons we’re learning from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Gallo was one of the deep sea experts assembled by filmmaker James Cameron at the beginning of June …

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