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 Oceaning, 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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Beginning: Intimacies of Conservation Technology
- 2. Technicity: Touching Whale Exhale with Drones
- 3. Elementality: Confronting Whalers Through the Air and on the Seas
- 4. Governmentality: Flying to the Limits of the Law Against Shark Fin Poachers
- 5. Storying: Tracking Northern Fur Seals and their Extinction Media
- 6. Crashing: Falling Drones and Abandoned Tern Colonies
- 7. Living: Coexisting with Sharks
- 8. Ending: Coral/Cultures
- References
- Index
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