Greenheart, an international non-profit organization, is preparing to build the world’s first fuel-free, container-ready commercial vessel. The small sail-solar ship is specially designed for use by communities in developing countries. Built in Chittagong, Bangladesh and will be lauched as early as next year. Producing no emissions, s/v Greenheart is designed as an ocean-going hybrid that uses an innovative combination of traditional sail and solar [...]

Over 20 internationally renowned ocean heroes will gather in Boulder, CO, for the Colorado Ocean Coalition (COCO)’s Making WAVES 2012 weekend on October 20 – 21, 2012. The annual event, now in its second year, brings together prominent ocean scientists, activists, educators, youth, and artists with our growing “Inland Ocean Community.” Featuring Jean-Michel Cousteau as the keynote speaker, the highlight [...]

The first time I went diving at night and experienced Bioluminescence in the californian channel islands, I could not stop but smile underwater. Moving an arm or kick my fins would generate so much light easily making Tinkebell jealous, had I been in Neverland. One could argue, I was. Forget the iPhone and your iPad, bioluminescence is the true magic [...]

Ivan martinetti brings a different approach to Ocean Awareness and protection. He is to the Sea Shepherd what the Buddha is to pirates. The world’s Oceans need all the help they can and both side of the environmentalist’s spectrum is needed. In today’s supersonic world, there is something to be said about taking time to teach ocean awareness. Walking 700 [...]

Synopsis: Starting next month in September, PG&E may be authorized to begin conducting seismic tests for 82 days over a 530-acre area along the Central Coast from Cambria to Guadalupe, a project that is expected to destroy an untold number of sea life, if the State Lands Commission on Aug. 14 approves the tests as proposed or even at more [...]

When a University of Washington researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off the east coast of Greenland, she was stunned at what she heard: whales singing a remarkable variety of songs nearly constantly for five wintertime months. Kate Stafford, an oceanographer with UW’s Applied Physics Lab, set [...]

Killer whales facts The incredible journey of Stig Severinsen a world champion freediver and marine biologist in Norway looking for the ultimate encounter with the top apex predator of the Ocean kingdom, the Orca whale. About Stig His experience with breath holds began when he as a child played at the bottom of his parent’s pool. He started swimming at [...]

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The Jewel Squids get their name from the distinctive large integumental photophores that make it look as though they’ve been run through a Bedazzler. They are moderate sized squid with long arms and short mantles (up to 33 mm long) with very small fins at the posterior tip. They are also commonly known as Cock-eyed Squid because their eyes are [...]

Constructed from high strength pH-neutral cement and incorporating tensile stainless steel coral anchoring points, The Phoenix is first kinetic sculpture in the MUSA collection. Based on a female form her wings are propagated with living purple gorgonian fan coral (Gorgonia ventalina) which continuously moves back and forth underwater filtering nutrients from the water column. The fan coral which is often [...]