Foreword / Peter Benchley -- Turning the tide: an introduction -- The coastal zone: form the mountains to the sea -- Nearshore waters: nursery, playground -- and dumping ground -- Coral reefs: the ocean's sensitive child -- The continental shelf: the ocean's engine -- The shape of the sea -- The deep sea: in over our heads? -- Creating a new ocean ethic
Summary
Describes ocean environments, current ecological threats, and how human impacts to the ocean are being reduced
