philippe cousteau, the floor is yours. [applause] >> thank you, under secretary.tary kerry for working so hard to establish the ocean as central to a global affairs. now, i thought that this morning it would be appropriate to open our conversation about exploration with a little trip down memory lane. a reminder of just how recently this journey began to explore and protect our ocean. so i brought here to share with you this morning a little clip, the first few minutes of the first episode of the undersea world from 1968. let's watch that. ♪ >> the calypso cora die will be a series of wages and exploration and discovery in all the seas of the world. we endeavor to save creature's threatened with extinction. we will study the behavior of all forms of life that thrive in this the. the history of the oceans dating back millions of years. ♪ from cages made up plexiglas we will fell wife that is sometimes savage and always beautiful. ♪ we will explore their graveyards of the sea where sunken ships slumber in search of creatures more precious than shipwrecks' gold. ♪ ♪

now delighted to invite to the stage three leading civil society voices on ocean conservation, philippe cousteau of earth echo international, margaret leinen and enrique sala of national geographic. they will each present their thoughts on the theme "exploring, understanding and conserving our ocean." and while they take the stage, the images you will see around the room are from one of the best love known and most -- best known and most loved versions of science, thal vin submersible -- alvin submersible, which just turned 50 years old this year. [applause] ♪ in the year that i was born, lived a man who sailed to sea. ♪ and he told us of his life in the land of submarines. ♪ so we sailed on to the sun until we found a sea of green. ♪ and we live beneath the waves in our yellow submarine. ♪ we all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine. ♪ we all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine. ♪ and and our friends are all aboard, many more of them live next door. ♪ and the band begins to play -- ♪ we all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow

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