Humans are always looking for new ways and medicines with which to treat their ailments and diseases. We discovered long ago that many of the things we need (if not all) were available to us through nature. This includes things above and below the water line. The following link to an article published by the Smithsonian describes a search for this medecine through collecting organisms that grow on oil rig platforms. The benefit to collecting such organisms is that through removal you are not damaging a permanent part of the region's ecosystem while still getting a variety of organisms from which to gain possilby invaluable information.
Medicine From The Sea
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