The very word ’inspiration’ gives a clue to what encouraged the founder of the OSC, Peter Parks, to work passionately, for well over ten years, to bring the UK into that international fraternity that is doing its darnedest to get the world, its politicians, its public, its holidaymakers, its sailors, its fisherfolk, and all those who frankly don’t ‘give a monkey’s uncle’ what happens to our most precious natural resource, to sit up, pay attention and protect a resource without which we will ultimately exterminate ourselves!

Peter has schemed, connived, inveigled, threatened, cajoled, bullied, bored witless, and done so many dastardly deeds of persuasion, even blackmail, in order to float a long lost dream, …… to create a UK centre, like no other in the world, to unite the world of the very smallest with the very biggest thereby to intrigue, imbue, inculcate and basically just ‘wow’ the socks off anyone good enough to come along and share in some of the most spectacular, most significant, most shattering facts about the realm that surrounds us all and whose protection, we ignore at our peril.