A New Ocean Minded Book By Matt Rigney In Pursuit of Giants is a moving elegy and call to arms for the protection of the great fish of the sea—marlin, bluefin tuna, and swordfish. It’s an adventure story that takes author Matt Rigney across the globe on a quest to discover how once thriving species are now threatened. Rigney’s pilgrimage to [...]

Award-winning journalist and author of Ocean’s End, The Lobster Coast, and The Republic of Pirates, Colin Woodard is a true Ocean Mind. I had several conversations with him regarding his brillant book “The Lobster Coast” during a documentary film shoot in Maine last summer. As we both hold a passion for characters (human beings with character that is) and the [...]

Well I believe Daniel Quinn the author of  “Ishmael:An Adventure Of The Mind And Spirit“  published in 1991 and winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship ,would have explained that  the gorilla has a closer DNA to us humans than a whale. Now the need to have a representative from the animal kingdom very close  to us  in the family tree is I believe [...]

100 Millions sharks are killed every year to either end up in shark fin soup, in lubricant and vitamin A (oil from their liver), and leather. As sharks take a long time to mature to be able to reproduce and only give birth to a very few young at a time,some species are now on the brink of extinction. Sharks [...]

  Ancient civilizations like the Philistines and the Babylonians had worshipped fishtailed gods, several stories on underwater creatures half human half fish have survived, manifesting themselves in written parchments or artworks from the Byzantine empire to the Romans. We as “Homo Industrialis” dismiss all these stories as myth and somewhat challenge the intelligence of earlier civilizations for believing in such childish stories. But what if? We [...]