The Ocean Atlas

Preface

Dear reader

We name the ocean with an almost innocent familiarity, as if it were only the great blue patch on the map. Yet it is a door we have spent centuries not daring to cross completely.

A whole world, vast and delicate, where the planet's first story was written. It shaped continents, set currents in motion and sustains the life we breathe without thinking.

“In its immensity lies our origin, in its fragility our responsibility, and in its strength the great opportunity we have not yet dared to face.”