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# Jon Bowermaster

(1954)   Explorer

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Jon Bowermaster is an explorer.

## Quick Facts About Jon Bowermaster

Born June 29, 1954

Profession Explorer

## About Jon Bowermaster

American journalist and oceans expert... \| Jon Bowermaster is an oceans expert, journalist, writer, filmmaker, adventurer and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society's 'Ocean Heroes,' his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsle

##  Quotes by Jon Bowermaster

> [More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-bowermaster/more-than-four-billion-people-live-within-a-stone-s-throw-of-the/)

[Jon Bowermaster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-bowermaster/)

[Billions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billions/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c5/jon-bowermaster-85984_billions_more-than-four-billion-people-live-withi_458640.jpg)

> [The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-bowermaster/the-more-familiar-people-are-with-the-ecosystem-that-lives-below-the/)

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[Below the surface](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/below-the-surface/)

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> [I think the best way to protect the ocean is to encourage people onto it and into it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-bowermaster/i-think-the-best-way-to-protect-the-ocean-is-to-encourage-people-onto/)

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[Best way](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best-way/)

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