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platforms. The image shown here is a visualization of ocean currents and temperature. The Sea Around Us was written by the award-winning envi- ronmentalist, Rachel Carson, whose landmark book, Silent Spring started the grassroots environmental movement and inspired the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. “For the sea as a whole, the alternation of day and night, the passage of the seasons, the procession of the years, are lost in its vastness, obliterat- ed in its own changeless eternity. But the surface waters are different. The face of the sea is always changing. Crossed by colors, lights and moving shadows, sparkling in the sun, mysterious in the twilight, its aspects and its moods vary hour by hour.” -Rachel Carson