Underwater Odyssey: "Sick & Injured Marine Animals Tell Their Stories"

Hello, and welcome to Underwater Odyssey.

My name is Krista Dunlop. As a professional scuba diver since 1994, I have a unique perspective of the underwater world and the environmental crisis we adults have caused.

When I'm scuba diving and I see a turtle's face mutilated by a boat propeller, or see what was once a beautiful coloured coral reef now bleached white, or see a dolphin calf's tail that has fallen off because it had gotten so tightly wrapped up in a crab trap line ... all that comes to my mind is ... what have we done. Then I find myself clearing my mask ... to wash away my tears.

As a professional scuba diver, I believe it is my personal responsibility to be a guardian of our blue planet and to remind children and adults of all that the underwater world has given us ... human survival, beauty and marine animal friendships. This is a cause that I am personally and professionally passionate about.

Through my business communications company, Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc. (www.kdainc.ca), I decided to sponsor a Corporate Environmental Awareness Educational Initiative - Underwater Odyssey (www.underwaterodyssey.ca), as a means to help preserve our blue planet.

I invite you to join me on this exciting journey to create a Blue Planet Legacy, one we all can be proud of leaving to our children and generations to come, through corporate environmental awareness educational program fundraising initiatives.

A portion of Underwater Odyssey's profits from this publication will be directed to the Project AWARE Foundation and the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.

Krista Dunlop
PADI Divemaster (DM-207237)