Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul (29 page)

Art is the linchpin that engages interest in science and conservation and fires the imagination, particularly among young students, who will inherit many of the problems we face today. The Wyland Ocean Challenge is the first interdisciplinary art and science educational program for grades K–6 that addresses these issues. The program integrates easily into primary school science units through:

Exploring Science Through Art
and Imagination

•Free Downloadable Teacher’s Activities

Activities are divided into two grade categories: K–3, 4–6. Three thematic areas are covered to enhance the student’s understanding of adaptations, water cycles, and environmental stewardship and conservation. All activities are designed to support National Science and Art Standards.

•Live Learning Events

A Wyland-designed “Underwater Village” will tour seventeen cities throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico in fall 2003. The tour will supplement the activities of the curriculum.

• Nationwide Art Contest

An art contest promoting self-expression and science research will take place in late 2003.

The Wyland Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that inspires people to care more about our oceans and the marine life within. Founded in 1993, the foundation encourages involvement in ocean conservation through classroom education programs, art and scientific research scholarships, and life-size art in public places. Generous monetary and service donations from local, national and individual sponsors make these programs possible.

The origins of the Wyland Foundation begin with the work of artist Wyland, who is recognized by political leaders, scientists, scholars, teachers and environmentalists around the world for his care and concern for our ocean planet.

For more information about the Wyland Foundation or Wyland Ocean Challenge:

Wyland Foundation
P. O. Box 1839
Laguna Beach, CA 926561
phone: 949-497-7979
fax: 949-497-7991
Web sites:
www.wylandfoundation.org
and
www.wylandoceanchallenge.org

Who Is Jack Canfield?

Jack Canfield is one of America’s leading experts in the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He is both a dynamic, entertaining speaker and a highly sought-after trainer. Jack has a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences toward increased levels of self-esteem and peak performance.

He is the author and narrator of several bestselling audio- and videocassette programs, including
Self-Esteem and Peak Performance,
How to Build High Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem in the Classroom
and
Chicken
Soup for the Soul—Live.
He is regularly seen on television shows such as
Good Morning America, 20/20
and
NBC Nightly News.
Jack has coauthored numerous books, including the
Chicken Soup for the Soul
series,
Dare to Win
and
The Aladdin Factor
(all with Mark Victor Hansen),
100 Ways to Build Self-Concept in the Classroom
(with Harold C. Wells),
Heart at Work
(with Jacqueline Miller) and
The Power of Focus
(with Les Hewitt and Mark Victor Hansen).

Jack is a regularly featured speaker for professional associations, school districts, government agencies, churches, hospitals, sales organizations and corporations. His clients have included the American Dental Association, the American Management Association, AT&T, Campbell’s Soup, Clairol, Domino’s Pizza, GE, ITT, Hartford Insurance, Johnson & Johnson, the Million Dollar Roundtable, NCR, New England Telephone, Re/Max, Scott Paper, TRW and Virgin Records. Jack is also on the faculty of Income Builders International, a school for entrepreneurs.

Jack conducts an annual eight-day Training of Trainers program in the areas of self-esteem and peak performance. It attracts educators, counselors, parenting trainers, corporate trainers, professional speakers, ministers and others interested in developing their speaking and seminar-leading skills.

For further information about Jack’s books, tapes and training programs, or to schedule him for a presentation, please contact:

Self-Esteem Seminars
P.O. Box 30880
Santa Barbara, CA 93130
phone: 805-563-2935 • fax: 805-563-2945
Web site:
www.chickensoup.com

Who Is Mark Victor Hansen?

Mark Victor Hansen is a professional speaker who, in the last twenty years, has made over four thousand presentations to more than 2 million people in thirty-three countries. His presentations cover sales excellence and strategies; personal empowerment and development; and how to triple your income and double your time off.

Mark has spent a lifetime dedicated to his mission of making a profound and positive difference in people’s lives. Throughout his career, he has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to create a more powerful and purposeful future for themselves while stimulating the sale of billions of dollars worth of goods and services.

Mark is a prolific writer and has authored
Future Diary, How to
Achieve Total Prosperity
and
The Miracle of Tithing.
He is the coauthor of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul
series,
Dare to Win
and
The Aladdin Factor
(all with Jack Canfield) and
The Master Motivator
(with Joe Batten).

Mark has also produced a complete library of personal empowerment audio- and videocassette programs that have enabled his listeners to recognize and better use their innate abilities in their business and personal lives. His message has made him a popular television and radio personality with appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO, PBS, QVC and CNN.

He has also appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, including
Success, Entrepreneur
and
Changes.

Mark is a big man with a heart and a spirit to match—an inspiration to all who seek to better themselves.

For further information about Mark, please contact:

Mark Victor Hansen & Associates
P.O. Box 7665
Newport Beach, CA 92658
phone: 949-759-9304 or 800-433-2314
fax: 949-722-6912
Web site:
www.chickensoup.com

Who Is Wyland?

Considered the most influential marine artist of our time, the work of this celebrated painter, sculptor, writer, underwater photographer and muralist is now seen by an estimated one billion people throughout the world every year. Since 1981, he has painted more than ninety monumental marine-life murals, including “Ocean Planet,” which was named the largest mural in the world in 1992 by the
Guinness Book of World Records.
Honored in 1998 with the Underwater Society of America’s prestigious NOGI Award, he is now listed in that organization’s Diving Hall of Fame. He is also founder of the Wyland Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the world’s oceans.

Wyland is committed to bridging the worlds of marine science and art—a philosophy hailed by world-renowned ocean scientists such as Dr. Robert Ballard, Dr. Sylvia A. Earle and Dr. Roger Payne. He firmly believes that “if people see the beauty in nature, they will work to preserve it before it’s too late.”

In 1998, the United Nations honored Wyland by using his art as part of its International Year of the Ocean environmental awareness campaign. Listed among “Who’s Who in American Art,” the art of Wyland is found today in museums, galleries, on public walls, and in many public and private collections throughout the world.

Wyland can be contacted at:

Wyland Worldwide, LLC.
5 Columbia
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
phone: 949-643-7070
Web sites:
www.wyland.com
and
www.wylandfoundation.org

Who Is Steve Creech?

Steve Creech is a former newspaper reporter who currently serves as publicist for marine-life artist Wyland and the Wyland Foundation. His articles have appeared in such newspapers as
The
Orange County Register, Pasadena Star News
and
Anaheim Bulletin,
and magazines such as
Skin Diver, Sport Diver, React for Kids
and
Elan.
He is an active participant in the prestigious Squaw Valley Community of Writers Summer Fiction Workshops in Squaw Valley, California, a children’s book author and is currently working on a book of short fiction stories. An avid ocean lover, he has resumed surfing after a twenty-year absence from the sport—and has yet to figure out which foot goes ahead of the other.

For further information about Steve, please write:

Steve Creech
c/o Wyland Worldwide
5 Columbia
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
phone: 949-643-7070

Contributors

Several of the stories in this book were taken from previously published sources, such as books, magazines and newspapers. These sources are acknowledged in the permissions section. If you would like to contact any of the contributors for information about their writing or would like to invite them to speak in your community, look
for their contact information included in their biography.

The remainder of the stories were submitted by readers of our previous
Chicken Soup for the Soul
books who responded to our requests for stories. We have also included information about them.

Gaie Alling, M.S.,
is the cofounder, CEO and president of Planetary Coral Reef Foundation. For the past twenty-three years, Ms. Alling has been actively engaged in marine, environmental and closed systems research and development projects. At Biosphere 2, she created and operated the largest artificial ecological marine system, a 1 million-gallon mangrove, marsh and ocean coral reef, served as scientific chief for over sixty research projects and was one of the eight “biospherians” to live inside.

Jennifer Anderson
lives on the island of Maui where she has recently retired from the dive industry. During her eighteen-year career, she traveled the world as an underwater model and led thousands of divers on informative dives, racking up more than twelve thousand dives. In her leisure time, she now works on manta research and dives from her kayak for pleasure. Her experiences are penned in a book of stories titled
A Mermaid’s
Tale,
soon to be published. She may be reached at
[email protected].

Tal Aviezer
and
Jason Cocovinis
are New York City-based writers specializing in scripts, prose and copy of all kinds. Their work covers a broad range of styles, and they are always happy to hear of new projects. Contact them at
[email protected]
and
[email protected].

Nancy V. Bennett
is a freelance writer whose passions include history, ghosts and long walks on country roads. She is a member of the Sooke Scribblers Writing Society and lives on Vancouver Island with her family. This piece appeared previously in
The Canadian Messenger.
Her essays have also been aired on CBC radio. Her future plans include publishing a collection of poems on Western outlaws.

Stephen Byrne
is a freelance outdoor writer with weekly columns in
Nor’east Saltwater
magazine. You can find his latest column at
www.noreast.com
.
He lives in Great Kills and enjoys the outdoors with his wife Annmarie and sons Stephen and Michael. An active member of OWAA, you can reach him at
[email protected].

Anne Carter
is a freelance writer. She and her husband reside on Long Island near the ocean. Anne began writing to chronicle the events in her life for her grandchildren. She dedicates this story to her father whose hand she held the first time a wave tickled her toes. Contact Anne at
[email protected].

Mark Conlin
is a marine wildlife photographer. He holds a degree in marine biology from University of California Santa Barbara. Mark’s hope is that his background in marine biology and love for the ocean can help illustrate an environment that needs our protection. To see Mark’s photography, please visit his Web site at
www.markconlin.com
.

Clive Cussler
is famous as America’s Grandmaster of Adventure. His books are in forty languages in 110 countries and have sold over 130 million copies. A noted shipwreck hunter, he and his NUMA crew have discovered over sixty historic shipwrecks.

The late
Lester David
was a veteran magazine writer and newspaper editor as well as the author of numerous biographies of well-known figures in politics and the arts.

Dayle Ann Dodds
has published eleven books, newspaper articles, poems and magazine stories for children. Her first picture book,
Wheel Away!
was number one on the
San
Francisco Chronicle
’s bestseller list. Dayle just completed another novel and her first full-length screenplay.

Dr. Sylvia A. Earle
is an oceanographer, explorer, author, lecturer, consultant, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, executive director of Global Marine Programs for Conservation International, program director for the Harte Research Institute, chairman of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, and former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Acclaimed as “The Goodness-Maker,”
Joycebelle Edelbrock
is the author and illustrator of ten kids’ e-books, including several underwater stories for kids and those about diving with Jacques Cousteau. Her work appears in a wide range of forums, from
National
Geographic, International and National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, World
and
Skin Diver
to
Chicken
Soup for the Teacher’s Soul.
Visit her Web site at
www.joycebelle.com
where you can download a free e-book,
Around the World Underwater with Jacques Cousteau
.