Blog Entries for Annie Crawley

What is most important in your life?

Annie — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:03:31 +0100

What is the most important thing in your life? Is it a person, a place, a material object, your dreams, experiences or perhaps your faith? When was the last time you gave yourself a few moments of time to stop and ask yourself what really matters. During the past two months my world changed forever with a phone c [...]

When you learn, you teach. When you got, you give.

Annie — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:44:15 +0100

What will you do with your moment in time? It was about a year ago that I first heard this statement and ever since then a switch seemed to turn on inside of me. And yet for the past several months despite all I have been doing, deep inside my soul I have felt like I am stuck. Then I f [...]

Japan Tsunami- Explaining World Tragedy to Children

Annie — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:15:11 +0100

I recently read this article and believe in the message. It helped me through the tragedy we have all been witnessing during the past week. There are more than 91 countries that have sent aid workers to Japan and every organization I have a connection is working on helping Japan. I came across this website that is helping children. Many children were in school and are very familiar with tsunami drills. Within ten minutes teachers had children on higher ground after [...]

Join Annie Crawley in Chicago 2011

Annie — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:40:23 +0100

Ocean Annie Crawley returns to sweet home Chicago at Our World Underwater at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL February 18th, 19th and 20th!

If you are in the Chicagoland area this weekend, February 18, 19 and 20th, come to Our World Underw [...]

Ocean Inspiration for this Holiday Season

Annie — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:10:15 +0100

Thank you for the overwhelming response to know more about Palau and to see more photographs and video from diving with Sam�s Tours, Kids Sea Camp, meeting the President and the month of bliss in Palau. I will be posting from this trip and Galapagos during the next couple of months but I wanted to get this specia [...]

Accomplishments over a decade

Annie — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:30:08 +0100

What happens when you think about a dolphin? Try it for a moment and see how you feel. We connect with Ocean animals, just like our children do. Mention the word shark around a little boy and see what happens! If we partner messages of the Ocean, together with imagination and environmental education, we change the way the next generation lives. Our children may only be 40% of our population, but they are 100% of our future.

educator" style="width: 349px; height: 262px;" />Tens of thousands of people are afraid to put their face in the water and many more just do not like it. Fears drive us and many people have a complete disconnection with the Ocean because they are afraid [...]

8 Ways to make a difference in the Gulf Oil Spill

Annie — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:14:33 +0100

What do you do when nobody else is watching? When the voice inside your head talks, do you like what it is saying? Have you ever woken up and felt like your life was not your own? Can you do more than what you are doing today? Taking action begins with a mind shift. Before we ca [...]

Taking Responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill

Annie — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:46:51 +0100

Where do I begin? For the past 21 days, I feel as if I have been holding my breath as I have watched the world news. We went from the cloud of ash from the Eyjafjallajokul Volcano in Iceland to potentially one of the worst environmental disasters in the last century as the Deepwater Horizon Gul [...]

Got Video?

Annie — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:56:41 +0100

Got Video? The past couple of weeks we have had lots of fun rocking out our make shift Mason Street Green Screen Studio. We were doing some tests for an upcoming project. The tests went so well we decided to create some programs! You can see the very first one here at one of our client's channels, Underwate [...]

Ten Years Left To Save Our Oceans

Annie — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:22:22 +0100

We have ten years left to save our Ocean. This is not an April Fool's Joke. Last weekend, I attended Beneath the Sea to be inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame. Surrounded by some of the top diving legends including Dr. Phil Nuytten, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Armand "Zig" Zigahn, Wyland, Dr. Eugenie Clark, Cathy Church, Ty [...]

We have the ability to change lives

Annie — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:09:52 +0100

"We have the ability to change lives through every one of our interactions, and sometimes we are not aware of the lives we have affected. As a society we are not good at letting someone know they have done a good job, we focus so much on negative and all the things we want to do rather than celebrating each moment of our journey and all the people who have helped us along the way. &# [...]

What will you do with your moment in time?

Annie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:04:58 +0100

�What will you do with your moment in time?� Dr. Ray Alf

This week I returned back to Santa Barbara after being on the road speaking for more than a month and I just can�t shake this quote out of my mind. �What w [...]

Tomorrow is Right Now

Annie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:00:38 +0100

"Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive." I still pinch myself every time I fly back to "Sweet Home Chicago" to present at schools, organizations and of course Our World Underwater, celebrating it�s [...]

Inspiration breeds Imagination which causes Innovation

Annie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:22:37 +0100

During the past two weeks the world watched the worst catastrophe in Haiti unfold, and like our economy, the worst has not been seen. During times of crisis I am amazed at the highways of thoughts and feelings that emerge, yet I believe in hope. On one page we are shown the devastation, and on another the jubilati [...]

Shoot for the Stars

Annie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:33:44 +0100

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny."

- Carl Schurz  1829-1906, Politician

The [...]

All roads lead to the same path

Annie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:51:11 +0100

Lately, I have felt like I have been down a long and winding road. I have been very frustrated because there have been so many forks in the road. The two paths turn to four and eight and I have been unable to make decisions, so I am stagnant looking at all the choices, saying now what? [...]