From Sonoma County PDA supporter and singer-songwriter, Gale Mead:
I’ve been watching the BP oil well disaster with growing horror, and it finally motivated me to do something with the footage I shot eight years ago when I worked with my mother on the Sustainable Seas Expeditions. I’ve compiled some images from a dive I did near the site of the blowout, with my song, “Where I Go” as the soundtrack. Here’s the video, and below that, what I wrote about it:
Carpets of crinoids – cousins of the sea-star – stretched their long limbs languidly into the current for morsels of planktonic food. Colorful tropical fish drifted among gracefully spiraling wire corals. Somber-faced grouper hovered warily while jacks and sharks cruised by, curious about the submersible’s lights. Fifty miles south of Mississippi, I was the first human ever to lay eyes on the teeming, thriving, dazzling undersea metropolis that was Salt Dome Mountain. As rich and diverse as Texas’ Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary to the west, or Florida’s coral reefs to the south, but a little deeper, and totally unexplored.
STAY TUNED for exact date and time of February meeting. The date and time listed are placeholders for the website calendar.
To be as effective as possible in this important year, we will focus on specific actions and meet at different significant events, dates and times in various locations around Sonoma County. Stay tuned to this website and make sure you are signed up for our e-mail alerts so that we can stay in touch about our monthly meetings and activities. We look forward to working with you this year!
