Message in a Bottle, the brainchild of Asher Jay, is a conceptual, collaborative, art installation that offers individuals who hail from a variety of disciplines the opportunity to express their concerns and hopes for Planet Ocean through creative media. This endows marine conservation with a unique united front from which [...]
Suppose you’re walking along the beach and you see a jellyfish washed up on the sand. Then you see another and then another. It’s a jellyfish invasion! What do you do? Who do you call? If MBARI researcher Steve Haddock has his way, you’ll take some photos and maybe a [...]
Science estimates that half of the species on the planet could disappear by the end of the century due to the destructive practices of the human populous. According to the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) the current extinction rate is 1000 times higher than the natural rate. Iconic [...]
As we are all seating in the comfort of our life, here is what is happening now in the life of a Grey Whale while migrating south to their mating and calving grounds here is their journey: click to enlarge and the challenges met along the long way down:
Any diver returning from ocean depths knows about the hazard of decompression sickness (DCS) or “the bends.” As the diver ascends and the ocean pressure decreases, gases that were absorbed by the body during the dive, come out of solution and, if the ascent is too rapid, can cause bubbles [...]
Vicki is the ocean mind behind Colorado Ocean Coalition and its successful “Making Waves” Ocean Symposium that takes place in the rocky mountain high city of Boulder. Why would one even consider creating a mountain based ocean centered festival? Ocean Minds got the answer in a Skype fueled interview full of laughs [...]
MacGillivray Freeman Films, IMAX Filmed Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that the IMAX® 3D film, To The Arctic, has crossed the $10 million benchmark at the worldwide box office – highlighting its universal appeal and ongoing success with IMAX® audiences. The film debuted on April 20, 2012 in [...]
Filmmakers Raise Money For Unique Human-Dolphin Collaboration “Dolphin Dreams” will be a short film depicting a unique and extraordinary collaboration between two human dancers and a pod of wild Atlantic Spotted dolphins. To finish the movie and release it, Chisa Hidaka MD (director) and Benjamin Harley (producer) have launched a [...]
Fabien Cousteau’s Plant a Fish brings yet a new approach to ocean preservation. Contrasting with Sylvia Earle’s famous “Hope Spots” where designated Marine Protected Areas allow the fish population to grow healthy again, Plant a Fish is founded on the basic principle of “planting” a specie that has been depleted. [...]
For The Zoological Society of London it is an epic day, they just released footage of a little-known species of seahorse, filmed off the coast of Senegal. The video shows the vibrantly orange West African seahorse, Hippocampus algiricus, bobbing in the water. Fisherman caught the seahorse to study it more [...]
