Save the whales, save the sea. My gateway druggo ocean conservation was always whales. Im a 90s baby, i grew up as a product of the save the whales movement, dolphin safe tuna, and the transition to curiosity around whales after whaling was outlawed. I grew up wanting to study them, then i wanted to save them from captivity, and now i want to save their home. When I was 23, a fresh graduate student, i opened up my first whale. It was a short finned pilot whale, it mass stranded with 8 others. We were trying to figure out what caused the death. I was living my purpose. We found 200+ pounds of marine debris in the stomach. Fishing net, plastic bags, and household items. That was the day i became an ocean activist. If i wanted to save whales, i had to save our planet. #oceanconservation #marinebio #marinescience #marinebiology #oceanlife #whales #humpbackwhales #spinnerdolphins #gatewayconservation