Oceaning

Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process new dependencies between nature technology and humans emerge and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In <i>Oceaning</i> Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises sharks and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales seals turtles and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology oceanic and atmospheric turbulence political corruption and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture-a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity.