The document 'Underwater Odyssey' by Krista M. Dunlop focuses on sick and injured marine animals sharing their stories while promoting environmental awareness and education for children. Sales from the publication support related fundraising initiatives, and the document includes invitations for children to become 'Blue Planet Legacy Heroes' through an essay contest and artistic projects about marine animals. Contributing authors and reviewers bring expertise and photography to enhance the educational content and encourage stewardship of marine ecosystems.

1. Underwater Odyssey
Sick & Injured Marine Animals
Tell Their Stories
Krista M. Dunlop
A portion of the profits from this publication
will be directed to environmental awareness
educational program fundraising initiatives for children.
Volume: 1

2. KD&A Publishing
A Division of Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc.
Krista Dunlop, Publisher • Laura Maw, General Editor
Thank you to Danielle O’Neil, M.Sc., CVT • Expertise: Marine Biology, for taking the time to review the content of this workbook and confirming the validity of the facts.
Danielle is the Manager of Sea Turtles Programs and Veterinary Technician at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. She has been lucky enough to work with a variety of
marine and terrestrial animals in her career and looks forward to many more years learning about our amazing marine environment.
Thank you to Budd Riker, Photographer, for providing the centre poster images. Budd’s underwater and terrestrial images can be viewed at www.lightinthesea.com.
KD&A Publishing ©2011
First printing 2011
CAN$9.99
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic, mechanical photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of Underwater Odyssey.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing-in-Publication
Dunlop, Krista M., 1956-
Sick and injured marine animals tell their stories / Krista M. Dunlop.
(Underwater Odyssey ; v. 1)
ISBN 978-0-9784450-2-7
1. Marine animals--Juvenile literature. I. Title. II. Title: Sick and
injured marine animals tell their stories. III. Series: Underwater
Odyssey ; v. 1
QL122.2.D85 2010 j591.77
C2010-905260-9
Underwater Odyssey
A Division of Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc.
World Exchange Plaza
45 O’Connor Street, Suite 1150
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1A4 CANADA
Phone: 1-877-755-4005
Web Site: www.underwaterodyssey.ca

3. Underwater
Odyssey
Hello, and welcome to Underwater Odyssey.
My name is Krista Dunlop. As a professional scuba diver since 1994, I have a unique perspective of the
underwater world and the environmental crisis we adults have caused.
When I’m scuba diving and I see a turtle’s face mutilated by a boat propeller, or see what was once a beautiful
coloured coral reef now bleached white, or see a dolphin calf’s tail that has fallen off because it had gotten so
tightly wrapped up in a crab trap line ... all that comes to my mind is ... what have we done. Then I find myself
clearing my mask ... to wash away my tears.
As a professional scuba diver, I believe it is my personal responsibility to be a guardian of our blue planet and to remind
children and adults of all that the underwater world has given us ... human survival, beauty and marine animal friendships. This is a
cause that I am personally and professionally passionate about.
Through my business communications company, Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc. (www.kdainc.ca), I decided to sponsor
a Corporate Environmental Awareness Educational Initiative – Underwater Odyssey – as a means to help preserve our blue planet.
I invite you to join me on this exciting journey to create a Blue Planet Legacy, one we all can be proud of leaving to our children and
generations to come, through corporate environmental awareness educational program fundraising initiatives.
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Krista Dunlop
PADI Divemaster (DM-207237)

4. Hi, I’m Your Manatee Friend!
I weigh about 360-540 kilograms (800-1200 pounds) and Please don’t throw trash in the waterways.
Why?
I am about 3 metres (10 feet) long. I can live in fresh,
brackish, or salt water. I need clean water, lots of plants to
• Because … if we swallow garbage it can
eat, space, and safe, protected areas to swim.
Can you hel p us? choke us, hurt our tummies, or even kill us.
How Blue Planet Legacy Hero Kids can help
Please don’t feed us. the manatees:
Why? • When swimming with us please do not touch us …
• Because … we can be very sick if we eat
let’s just watch and learn from each other.
• Watch out for us when you are on a boat … we are
• Because … we can be hooked by fishermen
your food. slow swimmers that can get injured by boat propellers
and because we like to feed on the vegetation that gets
wrapped around the boat’s propeller.
• Because … we are wild animals and need
if we get too close.
• Tell your friends and family what you have learned!
• Ask your teacher how your class can adopt a
• Because … we can get hit by boat propellers.
to stay wild to survive. manatee friend!
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5. Become
a
Legacy
Hero
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6. Hi, I’m Your Bottlenose Dolphin Friend!
I am around 2.5 metres (8 feet) long and weigh between Please don’t throw trash in the waterways.
Why?
200-300 kilograms (440-660 pounds). I have only one set
of 88-100 teeth for life. I use my teeth to catch my
• Because … when dolphins accidentally eat
food and then I swallow it whole. Like humans,
Can you hel p us?
I’m warm-blooded.
• Because … when a young dolphin is entangled
trash it can cause inner injury and starvation.
Please don’t feed us.
Why?
in a fishing line it usually dies very slowly and
painfully when its growing body is restricted by
the rubbish.
• Because … we can be very sick if we eat How Blue Planet Legacy Hero Kids can help
the bottlenose dolphins:
• Because … we can be hooked by fishermen
your food.
• Share what you learned with friends and family!
• Because … we are wild animals and need
if we get too close. • Adopt a bottlenose dolphin through Blue Planet
Legacy Programs!
• You can help by just remembering not to release
• Because … we can become “beggar dolphins”
to stay wild to survive.
balloons or throw trash into the ocean.
and stop hunting our wild prey which can cause us
to become sick or injured.
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7. Become
a
Legacy
Hero
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8. Hi, I’m Your Whale Shark Friend!
I am the largest living fish in the world! I was first Approach us slowly when you’re in a boat.
Why?
discovered in 1829 off the coast of South Africa. My large
mouth is on the front of my short snout which is 1.5 metres
• Because … we get scared when a fast boat
(5 feet) long. My mouth contains 3,000 little teeth arranged
into about 300 rows. I eat by sucking in my food. My food is
Can you hel p us?
very small and called plankton.
tries to chase us.
How Blue Planet Legacy Hero Kids can help
the whale sharks:
Please do not touch us.
Why?
• Do not touch, capture, restrict, or chase a whale
shark. Use a 3 metre (10 feet) distance as a rule
• Because … we get scared.
of thumb!
• Because … we could hurt you if our big tail
• Do not use a flash when taking pictures of a
whale shark.
hits you by accident.
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9. Become
a
Legacy
Hero
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10. Hi, I’m Your Green Sea Turt le Friend!
The green sea turtle grows to about 1.2 metres (4 feet) long Do not disturb turtle nests on the beach.
Why?
and weighs between 90-140 kilograms (200-300 pounds).
Young green sea turtles feed mostly on worms, shellfish, sea
• Because …
insects, algae and grass. As they approach adulthood, their diet
changes to sea grasses and algae. Although green sea turtles
do not have teeth, they use their jaws to help them crush their we only have a narrow strip of sand
food. Female green sea turtles return to the same beach they since the beaches are crowded with people. We return
hatched on to lay their own eggs. A green sea turtle does not at night to nest when people are gone. If the hatchlings
have the ability to pull their head and flippers inside their shell do not reach the ocean before the hot sun comes up
Can you hel p us?
for protection. they will die.
Still, many of the hatchlings that do make it to the water may
be eaten by fish and marine animals. Only one or two green
sea turtle hatchlings live to adulthood out of 1000. Where
Please do not throw trash in the water or on our hatchlings go to spend their first years of life is kept as
a mystery to protect them. However, you will see our little
the beach.
Why?
hatchlings again when they have reached about seven years
old, feeding offshore in turtle grass beds.
• Because …
How Blue Planet Legacy Hero Kids can help
we become entangled by marine the green sea turtles:
debris or choke to death on trash that we mistake for • Adopt a green sea turtle from the Clearwater
• Because … we travel over 1600 kilometres
food.
Marine Aquarium (www.cmaquarium.org)!
• Tell all your friends and family that green sea turtles
are an important part of our environment and should
(1000 miles) to the beaches we were born on to
be protected.
lay our eggs.
• Get together with your friends and participate in a
beach clean up.
• Do a presentation on turtles for class to raise
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awareness.

11. Become
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14. U T U B D S W A O O L P C R T W H A L E S H A R K S F C W D C S Find the
Words
R E N Y K U G Q U C D E O C E A N A Y T J M L I T E W Q M U R F
Y T R Y I K G B N K M E R A U L R D Q U B X A P L T G F R E S P
T U I L J B S P Y W O O A K U F E C W D M U L N O N T F E J U W UNDERWATER
P V U N D E R W A T E R L Y U K L E D V W X Q U A L I M E V G A AWARENESS
A L M T B E D C W W V R R U J F V P I M M E W S D T F H Y K O A BLUE PLANET
W E G H Q U E E A P W E E C H O A W S E R N V B N S E I O S A E WHALE SHARKS
S T U C O O Z Y R W O T E S P A R L H A E V V B N W Q E U P A E
CORAL REEFS
G P W X Q H K G E H E B F N J I W I A W B I J E R Y W U S R A Y
WHALES
B E I P O O E S N D F N S J P F F G R D C R D H J K L P G R J O
DOLPHINS
J E L R T T Q S E A G R A S S M N W K R Y O P L B N S W R E R Q
AQUARIUM
U T D M D S D F S Y J G V E W K L J S V X N N W V S D K E N T U
O W A P C B N B S W D G H L A Q U A R I U M P S X C W O E L E A CONSERVATION
E Q N P J L K I J V W Y K O R M R H U I S E S D E L K J N H S W GREEN SEA
TURTLES
F L I P P E R S Y U I O P W B D H W L T H N J G W R E T S E G L
SCUBA
S P M A X I N Q U W P D A F D X L I E O M T C B H J V L E K R E
MARINE
L E A J W C V B W E B O W S C U B A V E T A Y U L P Y A A L W I
ENVIRONMENTAL
E U L B L W B L U E P L A N E T G U S X C L M E C W P O T W P M
W E S H T J K F W N R P J W X F L U E N G A P P O D W O U I N D OCEAN
Q P U Q Z W I P P I R H V A S A R P M E R U T N S R E V R D O A WILD ANIMALS
T Y U I M E N T P G H I F D S L S I O N T H E Q E O R B T M U N MANATEES
B E H P A J U S T I N N F W E G O D T U M T A M L T O B L L F T SEA GRASS
K H J E E D B E H P A S I H A A D N I K A R B M A R I N E O A W ALGAE
R H A T C H L I N G S H S A L E H Y N T P G A M H A O B S G E E HATCHLINGS
I S T A W B E H P A H W P S O L F I L N E E R O W T O M Y N C E FLIPPERS
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Child’s Name: (PRINT) ____________________________________________ Age: ________ o Yes, I have permission from my Parent/Guardian/Teacher to submit this essay.
Parent/Guardian/Teacher’s Name: (PRINT) ____________________________________Parent/Guardian/Teacher’s Signature ________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Enter the Underwater Odyssey essay contest for a chance to adopt a marine animal, see web site for more details www.underwaterodyssey.ca. Essay submissions will be
posted on our web site.
Mail entries to the following address: Underwater Odyssey, c/o Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc., World Exchange Plaza, 45 O’Connor Street, Suite 1150, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1A4
CANADA Contest is run quarterly. Closing dates: January 31st, March 31st, June 30th, October 31st – ALL ENTRIES must reach Underwater Odyssey within 14 days of the closing date.
See inside back cover for submission details.

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17. Underwater Odyssey
As a Blue Planet Legacy Hero – You Can Make a Difference
Blue Planet Legacy Hero – Essay Contest
Contest is run quarterly. Closing dates: January 31st, March 31st, June 30th, October 31st – ALL ENTRIES must reach
Underwater Odyssey within 14 days of the closing date.
Mail entries to the following address:
Underwater Odyssey, c/o Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc., World Exchange Plaza
45 O’Connor Street, Suite 1150, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1A4 CANADA
Phone: 1-877-755-4005 • Web Site Address: www.underwaterodyssey.ca
1. As a Blue Planet Legacy Hero, tell us what your
mission will be and why?
7. Judging will take place 15 days after quarterly
closing dates. Find the Words Answer
2. Create a painting or drawing of a marine animal 8. Entries will be judged in three age groups: 6 - 7 U T U B D S W A O O L P C R T W H A L E S H A R K S F C W D C S
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adoptive friend to if you win the essay contest and age group by Underwater Odyssey.
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4. Remember not to use any natural materials submitting all entries personally. O W A P C B N B S W D G H L A Q U A R I U M P S X C W O E L E A
(sponges, corals, shells, etc.) in your artwork. 3. Paintings and drawings will be judged by associates
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5. On the back of your artwork tell us about the animal of Underwater Odyssey. The decision will be final. S P M A X I N Q U W P D A F D X L I E O M T C B H J V L E K R E
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you chose: 4. Original artwork cannot be returned. E U L B L W B L U E P L A N E T G U S X C L M E C W P O T W P M
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c. Include your name and contact details: Name of 6. Essays, drawings and paintings shall become the R H A T C H L I N G S H S A L E H Y N T P G A M H A O B S G E E
I S T A W B E H P A H W P S O L F I L N E E R O W T O M Y N C E
participant, Age, Name of Teacher and school (if copyrighted property of Underwater Odyssey to be
applicable), Address, Telephone and Email used for promotional, educational and awareness
purposes.
6. All entries received will be acknowledged by
email only. 7. Competitions may be cancelled without prior notice
by the event organizers at any stage.

18. Our vision is to shape the young reader’s experience so that children can find order, meaning and beauty on our blue
planet. We carefully nurture young children’s imaginations, providing windows through which they can look into their world
and empower them to voice their environmental concerns.
Krista Dunlop & Associates Inc. believes the future of our environmental world rests in the hands of our young children.
Through the creation of our Underwater Odyssey publication series, we address our corporate responsibility as their
guardians in helping to resolve our present day environmental issues.
A portion of Underwater Odyssey’s profits from this publication will be directed to the following organizations:
Project AWARE Foundation
www.projectaware.org
Clearwater Marine Aquarium
www.seewinter.com