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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.57,0:00:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A couple of years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.02,0:00:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harvard Business School chose
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.24,0:00:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the best business model of that year.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.99,0:00:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It chose Somali piracy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.05,0:00:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretty much around the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.27,0:00:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I discovered that there were 544 seafarers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.10,0:00:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being held hostage on ships,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.49,0:00:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often anchored just off the Somali coast
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.58,0:00:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in plain sight.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.01,0:00:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I learned these two facts, and I thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.63,0:00:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's going on in shipping?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.07,0:00:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, would that happen\Nin any other industry?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.64,0:00:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would we see 544 airline pilots
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.16,0:00:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,held captive in their jumbo jets
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.78,0:00:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a runway for months, or a year?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.27,0:00:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would we see 544 Greyhound bus drivers?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.10,0:00:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wouldn't happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.98,0:00:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started to get intrigued.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.76,0:00:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I discovered another fact,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.27,0:00:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which to me was more astonishing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.25,0:00:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost for the fact that I hadn't known it before
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.34,0:01:01.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the age of 42, 43.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.100,0:01:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is how fundamentally \Nwe still depend on shipping.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.32,0:01:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because perhaps the general public
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.66,0:01:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinks of shipping as an old-fashioned industry,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.78,0:01:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something brought by sailboat
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.32,0:01:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Moby Dicks and Jack Sparrows.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.71,0:01:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But shipping isn't that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.60,0:01:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shipping is as crucial to us as it has ever been.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.48,0:01:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shipping brings us 90 percent of world trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.08,0:01:34.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shipping has quadrupled in size since 1970.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.65,0:01:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are more dependent on it now than ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.64,0:01:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, for such an enormous industry --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.40,0:01:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are a 100,000 working vessels on the sea —
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.88,0:01:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's become pretty much invisible.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.27,0:01:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that sounds absurd in Singapore to say that,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.56,0:01:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because here shipping is so present
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.90,0:01:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you stuck a ship on top of a hotel.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.28,0:01:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.96,0:02:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But elsewhere in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.98,0:02:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you ask the general public what they know
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.23,0:02:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about shipping and how much\Ntrade is carried by sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.06,0:02:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will get essentially a blank face.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.68,0:02:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will ask someone on the street
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.71,0:02:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they've heard of Microsoft.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.44,0:02:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should think they'll say yes,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.27,0:02:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they'll know that they make software
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.47,0:02:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that goes on computers,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.36,0:02:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and occasionally works.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.51,0:02:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you ask them if they've heard of Maersk,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.11,0:02:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I doubt you'd get the same response,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.81,0:02:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though Maersk,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.26,0:02:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is just one shipping company amongst many,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.95,0:02:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has revenues pretty much on a par with Microsoft.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.93,0:02:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[$60.2 billion]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.42,0:02:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now why is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.34,0:02:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.25,0:02:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first sea lord of the British admiralty --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.52,0:02:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is called the first sea lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.33,0:02:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although the chief of the army is not called a land lord —
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.82,0:02:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said that we, and he meant
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.27,0:02:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the industrialized nations in the West,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.95,0:03:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we suffer from sea blindness.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.76,0:03:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are blind to the sea
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.40,0:03:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a place of industry or of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.33,0:03:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just something we fly over,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.62,0:03:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a patch of blue on an airline map.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.63,0:03:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing to see, move along.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.95,0:03:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wanted to open my own eyes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.60,0:03:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to my own sea blindness,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.68,0:03:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I ran away to sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.04,0:03:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A couple of years ago, I took a passage
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.40,0:03:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the Maersk Kendal,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.77,0:03:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a mid-sized container ship
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.11,0:03:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying nearly 7,000 boxes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.34,0:03:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I departed from Felixstowe,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.24,0:03:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the south coast of England,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I ended up right here in Singapore
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.16,0:03:42.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five weeks later,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.65,0:03:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,considerably less jet-lagged than I am right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.56,0:03:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was a revelation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.80,0:03:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We traveled through five seas,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.100,0:03:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two oceans, nine ports,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.54,0:03:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I learned a lot about shipping.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.29,0:04:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the first things that surprised me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.01,0:04:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I got on board Kendal
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.39,0:04:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was, where are all the people?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.14,0:04:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have friends in the Navy who tell me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.76,0:04:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they sail with 1,000 sailors at a time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.90,0:04:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but on Kendal there were only 21 crew.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.24,0:04:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that's because shipping is very efficient.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.11,0:04:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Containerization has made it very efficient.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.18,0:04:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ships have automation now.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.27,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can operate with small crews.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it also means that, in the words
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.79,0:04:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a port chaplain I once met,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.25,0:04:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the average seafarer you're going to find
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.30,0:04:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a container ship is either tired or exhausted,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.43,0:04:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the pace of modern shipping
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.21,0:04:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is quite punishing for what the shipping calls
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.53,0:04:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its human element,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.96,0:04:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a strange phrase which they don't seem to realize
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.42,0:04:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sounds a little bit inhuman.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.82,0:04:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So most seafarers now working on container ships
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.50,0:04:53.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often have less than two hours in port at a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.57,0:04:55.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't have time to relax.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.21,0:04:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're at sea for months at a time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.46,0:04:58.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even when they're on board,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.77,0:05:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't have access to what
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.07,0:05:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a five-year-old would take for granted, the Internet.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.51,0:05:07.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And another thing that surprised me\Nwhen I got on board Kendal
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.34,0:05:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was who I was sitting next to --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.33,0:05:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not the queen; I can't imagine why\Nthey put me underneath her portrait --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.58,0:05:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But around that dining table in the officer's saloon,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.34,0:05:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sitting next to a Burmese guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.17,0:05:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was opposite a Romanian, a Moldavian, an Indian.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.44,0:05:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the next table was a Chinese guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.68,0:05:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the crew room, it was entirely Filipinos.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.72,0:05:31.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was a normal working ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.68,0:05:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now how is that possible?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.70,0:05:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the biggest dramatic change
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.59,0:05:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in shipping over the last 60 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.44,0:05:39.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when most of the general public stopped noticing it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.95,0:05:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was something called an open registry,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.57,0:05:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a flag of convenience.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.37,0:05:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ships can now fly the flag of any nation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.96,0:05:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that provides a flag registry.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.91,0:05:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can get a flag from the landlocked nation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.19,0:05:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Bolivia, or Mongolia,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.31,0:05:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or North Korea, though that's not very popular.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.28,0:05:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.71,0:06:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have these very multinational,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.82,0:06:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,global, mobile crews on ships.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.60,0:06:09.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was a surprise to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.31,0:06:12.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we got to pirate waters,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.43,0:06:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down the Bab-el-Mandeb strait\Nand into the Indian Ocean,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.56,0:06:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ship changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.31,0:06:20.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was also shocking, because suddenly,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.45,0:06:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized, as the captain said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.66,0:06:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had been crazy to choose to go
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.67,0:06:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through pirate waters on a container ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.72,0:06:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were no longer allowed on deck.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.71,0:06:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were double pirate watches.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.30,0:06:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that time, there were those \N544 seafarers being held hostage,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.58,0:06:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of them were held hostage for years
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.55,0:06:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the nature of shipping\Nand the flag of convenience.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.32,0:06:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all of them, but some of them were,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.40,0:06:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because for the minority\Nof unscrupulous ship owners,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.12,0:06:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can be easy to hide behind
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.66,0:06:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the anonymity offered by some flags of convenience.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.66,0:06:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What else does our sea blindness mask?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.60,0:07:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, if you go out to sea on a ship
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.92,0:07:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or on a cruise ship, and look up to the funnel,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.91,0:07:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll see very black smoke.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.78,0:07:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's because shipping
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.32,0:07:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has very tight margins,\Nand they want cheap fuel,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.90,0:07:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they use something called bunker fuel,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.08,0:07:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was described to me\Nby someone in the tanker industry
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.59,0:07:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the dregs of the refinery,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.76,0:07:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or just one step up from asphalt.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.02,0:07:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And shipping is the greenest method of transport.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.41,0:07:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.76,0:07:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it emits about a thousandth of aviation
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.73,0:07:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about a tenth of trucking.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.84,0:07:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not benign, because there's so much of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.08,0:07:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So shipping emissions are\Nabout three to four percent,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.61,0:07:40.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost the same as aviation's.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.78,0:07:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you put shipping emissions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.17,0:07:45.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a list of the countries' carbon emissions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.55,0:07:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it would come in about sixth,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.16,0:07:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somewhere near Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.28,0:07:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was calculated in 2009 that the 15 largest ships
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.30,0:07:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pollute in terms of particles and soot
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.89,0:07:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and noxious gases
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.29,0:07:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as all the cars in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.87,0:08:01.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the good news is that
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.27,0:08:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people are now talking about sustainable shipping.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.46,0:08:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are interesting initiatives going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.95,0:08:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But why has it taken so long?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.21,0:08:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When are we going to start talking and thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.55,0:08:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about shipping miles as well as air miles?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.59,0:08:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also traveled to Cape Cod to look
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.39,0:08:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the plight of the North Atlantic right whale,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.32,0:08:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this to me was one\Nof the most surprising things
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.48,0:08:25.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about my time at sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.43,0:08:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what it made me think about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.23,0:08:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know about man's impact on the ocean
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.38,0:08:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of fishing and overfishing,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.82,0:08:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we don't really know much about
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.62,0:08:36.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's happening underneath the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.81,0:08:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact, shipping has a role to play here,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.41,0:08:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because shipping noise has contributed
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.06,0:08:46.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to damaging the acoustic\Nhabitats of ocean creatures.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.25,0:08:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Light doesn't penetrate beneath\Nthe surface of the water,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.24,0:08:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.87,0:08:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even 800 species of fish
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.17,0:08:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,communicate by sound.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.06,0:08:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a North Atlantic right whale
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.78,0:09:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can transmit across hundreds of miles.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.98,0:09:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A humpback can transmit a sound
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.95,0:09:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across a whole ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.88,0:09:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a supertanker can also be heard
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.84,0:09:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming across a whole ocean,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.91,0:09:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because the noise that\Npropellers make underwater
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.48,0:09:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is sometimes at the same frequency that whales use,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.81,0:09:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it can damage their acoustic habitat,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.85,0:09:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they need this for breeding,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.54,0:09:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for finding feeding grounds,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.19,0:09:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for finding mates.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.71,0:09:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the acoustic habitat of the\NNorth Atlantic right whale
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.55,0:09:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been reduced by up to 90 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.90,0:09:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there are no laws governing \Nacoustic pollution yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.51,0:09:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I arrived in Singapore,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.77,0:09:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I apologize for this, but I \Ndidn't want to get off my ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.68,0:09:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd really loved being on board Kendal.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.64,0:09:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been well treated by the crew,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.53,0:09:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd had a garrulous and entertaining captain,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.07,0:09:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would happily have signed up\Nfor another five weeks,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.14,0:09:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that the captain also said
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.97,0:10:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was crazy to think about.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.25,0:10:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I wasn't there for nine months at a time
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.49,0:10:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the Filipino seafarers,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.45,0:10:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, when I asked them to describe their job to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.68,0:10:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called it "dollar for homesickness."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.01,0:10:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had good salaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.48,0:10:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but theirs is still an isolating and difficult life
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.52,0:10:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a dangerous and often difficult element.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.20,0:10:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I get to this part, I'm in two minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.29,0:10:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I want to salute those seafarers
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.22,0:10:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who bring us 90 percent of everything
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.40,0:10:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get very little thanks or recognition for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.07,0:10:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to salute the 100,000 ships
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.79,0:10:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are at sea
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.11,0:10:34.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are doing that work, coming in and out
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.65,0:10:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every day, bringing us what we need.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.88,0:10:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I also want to see shipping,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.90,0:10:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and us, the general public,\Nwho know so little about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.37,0:10:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a bit more scrutiny,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.41,0:10:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be a bit more transparent,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.52,0:10:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have 90 percent transparency.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.79,0:10:54.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I think we could all benefit
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.69,0:10:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from doing something very simple,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.80,0:10:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is learning to see the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.88,0:11:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.04,0:11:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)