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About OCEAN
OCEAN is a not for profit organization
dedicated to celebrating and protecting the earth's ocean and its creatures.
OCEAN publishes OCEAN Magazine and DOLPHIN Magazine.
OCEAN Magazine publishes environmentally based articles and stories, essays, poems, and photography about the ocean ––
written with fact and feeling.
OCEAN is an eclectic blend of the informative and educational, personal, spiritual and sensual. OCEAN draws its inspiration
from love, with beauty.
In OCEAN you meet whales, dolphins, sharks, sea turtles, sea lions, seals, manatees, seagulls, and others. You'll experience
hurricanes, tsunamis, waterspouts, El Niño and La Niña. You swim and dive and surf and sail and paddle with fish all around.
You learn about ocean conservation concerns and efforts and clean energy for a healthy environment.
You sit or walk on the shore and in the quiet and the roar, you feel and think and be.
OCEAN is a celebration of our earth's water –– its beauty, resources, wildlife –– where treasures of the sea exist bountifully but not infinitely.
The ocean, despite its vast power, is fragile. OCEAN is also about protection of the earth's water –– its environment, ecology, health, and conservation.
Oceanic resources are intrinsically linked to our continued existence. And, the world's ocean is presently a 20.9 trillion dollar economy.
Within the ocean's waves, deep into its depths, the water offers us recreation –– sailing, windsurfing, surfing, snorkeling, diving, swimming, paddling,
fishing, whale watching, and more –– that lend valuable experiences to our lives, expanding our knowledge beyond our land-bound living.
The source of all life and great wisdom, the ocean exists by a system of syngergism –– one that humans are rapidly destroying. As dolphins who live
intelligently within a democracy, we can only continue to exist with the same spirit of a'lul'quoy: to go around . . . to protect . . . to go in peace.
OCEAN takes you to the ocean.
From OCEAN Magazine, DOLPHIN Magazine was born.
More and more stories came to OCEAN about dolphins and readers responded enthusiastically. Behind the scenes,
we were drawn in to the stories, fascinated. Some of the dolphin healing and dolphin communication stories sounded
beyond reality. How do we present these without sounding crazy? We believed because we wanted to believe but
we needed scientific information to back and verify the integrity of the stories, indeed, to protect OCEAN's credibility.
We delved into research and our findings absorbed us, enthralled us. We met and got to know people whose lives were
changed forever by encounters with dolphins and others who spend their lives with dolphins, sharing, learning, researching. All were filled with the magic of
their love and joy. And yet, it's not magic, it's real and pure and enduringly inspiring.
We created DOLPHIN as a participatory forum for dolphin lovers, in keeping with the way dolphins live their lives here on earth, amongst us. They share among
themselves and with us. We follow their example, making DOLPHIN a portal to Dolphin, from Dolphin, for all people who wish to enter that portal.
DOLPHIN is an online magazine created by its readers for its readers. Readers contribute articles, stories, essays, poems, photographs, and illustrations about
and related to dolphins.
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 Hurricane Isabel swept over Hatteras Island, a small ribbon of island in the Atlantic Ocean. And with that OCEAN was born. I walked
out into the saltwater flooded yard, the front porch newly tilted by the wave that engulfed it, and looked at the sun shining on the water
–– everywhere.
Big letters appeared in my head: OCEAN. That was it! The idea that had been stirring, that I could almost touch, almost materialize for
several years. OCEAN materialized from my love of the ocean and its creatures and from my learning about them, respect and appreciation of them
through my life spent by the ocean, on the ocean, in the ocean. Hence, OCEAN's motto "to celebrate and protect".
OCEAN's contributors –– writers, photographers, supporters –– live throughout the United States, in every state, and in other countries such as Canada,
England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Israel, Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia. All love and respect the ocean and share OCEAN's desire
to celebrate and protect the ocean and its creatures.
OCEAN grows with every new person that comes to it.
Now you too, are a part of OCEAN.
OCEAN Publisher DIane Buccheri's WINTER 2008 IINTERVIEW with Kathryn Magendie (www.kathrynmagendie.com) will give you insight into OCEAN:
 KATHRYN MAGENDIE: Diane, what motivated you to begin publishing OCEAN Magazine?
DIANE BUCCHERI: Love of the ocean, love of literature, love of all things beautiful and natural, and a desire to share this love, stimulate interest and
passion and education.
KM: Have there been times you’ve wanted to throw up your hands and say, “This is it, the last OCEAN I’ll publish!”
DB: Never!
KM: What have you learned about our oceans since becoming publishing editor of OCEAN Magazine?
DB: I have begun to learn just how intricately interconnected our lives, all lives and existence here on earth are by the ocean everywhere on earth.
The ocean’s vastness and power reaches into every moment here on earth, into everything here on earth. The ocean is largely responsible for all
our weather. It’s a force to be respected and revered, better understood and cooperated with.
KM: I agree! What have you learned about yourself?
DB: Just how little I can live with materially.
KM: What was it like to publish the first issue of OCEAN?
DB: It was a thrill! I knew I was embarking on a new adventure, one that I was determined to make a success and would learn a great deal from and
one that I was proud of but would require marketing experience that I would gain along the way, and tremendous perseverance.
KM: What kinds of changes have you seen to our oceans that worry you? And, what kinds of progress do you see that encourages you?
DB: Most of all, we are changing the ocean with pollution. Out of sight is out of existence. But not so! All of our trash ends up in the ocean—directly
dumped there or leached from the land. Every chemical that goes through our body or is put on our body ends up in the ocean. Every product we
use ends up in the ocean. It is broken down, leached, etc. and much of it evaporates with the ocean’s surface water, drawn into the atmosphere by
the sun’s heat, collects in clouds, and falls back down upon us.
Many of the ocean’s fish and plants and other creatures are suffocating, rotting alive, and living diseased because of our pollution. Populations are
dwindling fast. Seventy-five percent of the world’s predator fish and ninety percent of our commercially valuable fish are exploited, over-exploited,
or depleted. Seventy-five percent of the marine habitat has been destroyed by humans. And most of those swimming the ocean are smaller and
less healthy than their ancestors.
It is our rising awareness of the damage we are causing and the pain and disease we are creating that is most encouraging. Awareness will lead to
change in our practices.
KM: If you get no other message across to readers but one, what would that one message be?
DB: To protect the ocean through celebration of the ocean. Hence, OCEAN’s motto is “to celebrate and protect”. We need a healthy, thriving ocean
for our health, for our actual survival.
KM: I can see from your passionate answers the answer to this question, but I will ask anyway: what does the ocean mean to you? And, what does
OCEAN Magazine mean to you?
DB: To me, the ocean means vitality. Freedom. Adventure. Repetition and security. Foreverness. Hope. Timelessness within the constant, always
changing rhythm. Vastness. Beauty and innocence. Power and fragility. The wonder of life here on earth, of existence and growth and evolution.
For me, OCEAN Magazine is my way of sharing this with others. I have gotten to know so many people through OCEAN and have had so many very
meaningful exchanges with people since the first issue of OCEAN that gratify me and bring richness to every day. I am thrilled with some of their writings
and photographs.
KM: What kind of submissions are you looking for that you do not get enough of? And what do you get that you would like to see less, or none, of?
DB: I would like more high quality, deeply felt and deeply thoughtful, knowledge based or uniquely creative non-fiction writing.
KM: Your website reads, “And, the world’s ocean is presently a 20.9 trillion dollar economy.” In what way(s)? Do you mean this in a positive way, a
negative way, or is it both?
DB: It is a fact, and one that I find interesting and stunning at once. I state this fact to bring a truth to our recognition. We forget that we rely upon the ocean and its resources so much, or we never
realized our dependence and use of the ocean and its resources. Heck, so many of our foods have seaweed products in them for consistency. Chemicals from the ocean are medically valuable.
Ocean fishing, recreation, transportation, mining, and research, just to name a few, are huge industries. I make the statement on OCEAN’s website to awaken readers to the fact that we get so
much from the ocean. For its yield to be healthy, we need to respect it and treat it responsibly.
KM: Diane, how can we help our oceans?
DB: We can help our oceans by learning how to consume less, therefore create less waste, and by learning how to consume in a way that we nourish the earth and the ocean with our waste, as
nature has always done. If we understand nature’s ways better and live within her system of growth, decay, and re-growth through regeneration, we can live healthier, more productive, fulfilling lives.
KM: And how do we harm our oceans?
DB: With our materialism and types of technology which lead to consumption which leads to waste, which leads to filth, which leads to illness and destruction. These are general terms. Specifically,
for example, more bottles from bottled water end up in the ocean than are recycled or reused. Plastic only breaks down to a certain extent. There is so much plastic in the ocean that plastic particles
are showing up in the genes of fish!
KM: This is scary. And I’ve been guilty of frequent water bottle use! Awareness is changing that for me. Diane, what are you most proud of in regards to OCEAN Magazine?
DB: It has drawn together so many people of all ages from all around the United States and the world in the spirit of love and compassion, sharing creativity and knowledge. It’s all about beauty and
love — and that ripples out to its readers — just as a smile touches one person and happiness is passed from one person to the next, to the next, its simplicity touching the soul.
KM: I feel a part of that, and I thank you for it! So, how do readers subscribe to OCEAN?
DB: At www.OceanMag.org through its online store, or by calling me at 252-256-2296, or by mailing a check to OCEAN, P.O. Box 84, Rodanthe, NC 27968. In the U.S. it costs $19.50 plus $6.50 for mailing.
KM: Thank you, Diane, for taking time to interview with me, and for the work that you do.
DB: Thank you Kat for this opportunity, and for your terrific contributions to OCEAN Magazine. You are a fine, sensitive lover of nature as well as a fine, sensitive writer.
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