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I am constantly amazed by the world wide collection of talent and vision that pass through our tiny collection of islands here in the U.S.Virgin Islands.

This morning I had the pleasure to host Dr. David Googenheim,Senior fellow at the Ocean Foundation on my radio program “On the Water”. Dr. Googenheim is known the world over as the Ocean Doctor. A major contributor to Google Earth’s Oceans project, he has traveled the worlds exploring under the sea and looking to provide realistic measures by which to protect and preserve our fragile ocean environments.While most of us would think that our turning fifty would be a time to start making in-roads into checking off tasks on our ‘bucket list’, David has taken on the job of traveling the United States and their outlying Territories and giving “Fifty Speeches in Fifty States” to school children whose curiosity has of late been limited to texts and television sitcoms, and installing in them the desire to discover the vast oceans on our planet that researchers such as himself will tell you have only barely been documented. He has made me re-think my own milestone birthday celebration this year and think beyond balloons and cake as to what I might be able to pass along from my life’s observations and experiences. To learn more about the ‘Ocean Doctor’, go to his website at www.1planet1ocean.org . And as always we invite yoy to tune in to “On the Water” at www.vicl.org