Deep Blue Sea

Ellen Prager wants you to care about the oceans. She’s a writer and former chief scientist of the Aquarius Reef Base, the world’s only undersea research station. Her latest book is called “Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime."  She says we ignore the oceans at our own peril.

TTBOOK essayist and producer Veronica Rueckert has had her own close encounter with whales, on a first visit to Sea World in San Diego.  For Veronica, laying eyes on an orca was stranger than she’d ever imagined.

Diana Reiss directs the Dolphin Research Program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and is a professor in the Psychology Department at Hunter College.  She writes about her findings on dolphin intelligence in the book “Dolphin in the Mirror.”