The capacity of humans to destroy their environment is playing out like a Greek tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea. After having coexisted with a diversity of marine animals throughout their history, humans have broken the balance in recent decades, and the survival of countless marine creatures is now increasingly uncertain. Sailing Across a Wounded Sea is the story of an ideal journey around the Mediterranean to meet its non-human inhabitants: a reconstructed collage of really happened episodes collected over half a century as the author observed real animals, exchanged views with people, and argued for such views in the policy arena.