1. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 1 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: The UK coastline is one of the longest in Europe, at over 11,000miles.
Additional info: No-one more than 75 miles from the sea, our seas and coasts are vital to our way of life and to many livelihoods
Citation: The mapping authority for the United Kingdom, the Ordnance Survey, records the coastline of the main island, Great Britain, as 11, miles rounding to 11,073 miles (17,820 km). If the larger islands are added the coastline, as measured by the standard method at Mean High Water Mark, rises to about 19,491 miles (31,368 km).
According to the CIA Factbook, the length of the UK coastline is around 12,429 km[citation needed] or 7723 miles. For comparison the Factbook also shows the coastline of Italy (7,600 km), Spain (4,964 km) or France (3,427 km). The CIA Factbook figures may be useful comparatively but no detail is provided as to how they were calculated.

2. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 2 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say:
UK seas extend over 867,000 sq km (335,000 sq miles) - more than three times its land area. To a depth of over 3,000m in an area just 200 miles offshore
A huge proportion of the UK's total biodiversity is found in the seas…

3. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 3 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: …we have the second largest fish in the world…
Additional info:
Scotland: Firth of Clyde, Sea of Hebrides and The Minch are UK summer hotspots
England: Cornwall and Isle of Mann are summer hotspots

4. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 4 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: The largest marine turtle ever recorded in the world washed ashore in Wales. It was a male leatherback, weighting a staggering 916kg.

5. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 5 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: …our seas are home to a third of the world’s grey seals …
Additional info: This is a grey seal amongst a soft coral called deadmans fingers.

6. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 6 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say:…we have 23 species of whale and dolphin, including humpback and sperm whales
Additional info: These are Risso’s dolphins

7. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 7 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: How many of you know that we have Orca off the coast of Scotland, England and Ireland?

8. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 8 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: We’re all familiar with images like this tropical coral reef, but how many of you know that we have corals in our chilly UK seas? (Ask the audience to raise their hands if they new this)
We have some incredible marine live beneath the waves, but unfortunately, not many people know about it.

9. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 9 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Audience: Anybody
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: We have rocky reefs covered in soft corals…

10. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 10 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: Brightly coloured sponges and seafans…
Additional info: this is a hedgehog sponge

11. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 11 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: …Fragile maerl beds that are more than 5,000 years old!
Additional info: Quote about destruction of maerl beds in Falmouth?
Additional info: Maerl is a collective term for several species of red seaweed, with hard, chalky skeletons. It is rock hard and, unlike other seaweeds, it grows as unattached rounded nodules or short, branched shapes on the seabed. Like all seaweeds, maerl needs sunlight to grow, and it only occurs to a depth of about 20m.

12. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 12 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: Part of a sequence of slides to introduce our amazing marine life
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: ...and shallow beds of species rich seagrass, flameshell, horsemussel
Additional info: this is a flameshell

13. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 13 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: A mini quiz to interact with your audience
Timing: 1 minute
What you can say: Which of these anemones do you think is from our UK seas? (Answer = 1, 2 and 3. Number 4 is a tube anemone in the Maldives).

14. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 14 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: To give a brief introduction to marine impacts
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: Our UK seas support over 7,500 recorded species (44,000 including single- celled organisms) but they are at risk from damaging activities.

15. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 15 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: To give a brief introduction to marine impacts
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: Our seas are losing their biodiversity at an accelerating rate
Several UK species are already listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.

16. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 16 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: To compare UK species with iconic endangered animals
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: The Common Skate is no longer “common”. It is critically endangered like the western lowland gorilla.

17. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 17 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: To compare UK species with iconic endangered animals
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: The angel shark is now declared extinct from the North Sea. It is critically endangered alongside the Sumatran orangutan.
worldwildlife.org

18. Section 1: Introduction. Slide 18 out of 23. Total time 4 minutes.
Purpose: To compare UK species with iconic endangered animals
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: Leatherback turtles and basking shark are vulnerable to extinction

19. Section 1: Introduction. Total time 4 minutes. Slide 19 out of 23.
Purpose: To give a very brief intro to how our marine ecosystem is impacted
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: Marine life is under threat from ever increasing human impacts and climate change

20. Section 1: Introduction. Total time 4 minutes. Slide 20 out of 23.
Audience: Anybody
Purpose: To give a very brief intro to how our marine ecosystem is impacted
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: We live in a throw-away society. Litter is swamping our seas and is washing up on our beaches.

21. Section 1: Introduction. Total time 4 minutes. Slide 20 out of 23.
Purpose: To give a very brief intro to how our marine ecosystem is impacted
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: Over the last 150 years, people have been fishing further, deeper and for longer, using ever more advanced technology. Our seas are still subject to many damaging practices in places, plundering fish stocks with little thought for the future.

22. Section 1: Introduction. Total time 4 minutes. Slide 21 out of 23.
Purpose: To explain that it isn’t to late, and to fully introduce the presentation you about to give.
Timing: A few seconds
What you can say: But it is not too late. These areas and species can recover, but we must act now to save our seas.
We all share responsibility of keeping our seas healthy and full of life. This presentation is about how *you* can give a helping hand to our amazing marine life.

23. Section 1: Introduction. Total time 4 minutes. Slide 23 out of 23.
Purpose: To introduce the Marine Conservation Society and our three work areas.
Timing: 20 seconds
What you can say: The Marine Conservation Society is the UK charity dedicated to protecting our seas, shores and wildlife. The charity works to ensure that the rich wildlife of our seas can be restored, that our beaches and bathing waters can become cleaner and that fish stocks can recover. I’m going to talk about the problems in these three areas, and how everyone in this room can do even the simplest of things to help save our seas.