David Treadway, Ph.D.,  a founding member of Sailors for the Sea, is a nationally known family and couples therapist, and the author of Intimacy, Change, and other Therapeutic Mysteries and Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts his own Grief. He has appeared on national media including "Good Morning America" and "Twenty/Twenty," as well as hosting a show on family communication for public radio.

David has been an avid sailor his whole life and in the past 30 years has sailed his Luders 33 as far north as Newfoundland and Scotland, and as far south as Spain and the Caribbean. He's crossed the Atlantic three times, including one solo voyage. David passionately believes that all of us who love the sea must unite in sounding the alarm about the threat to our oceans.