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 advocates as well as distressed denizens can address the long [...]

Ziphius There Is An App For That! Give it to the Portuguese, a once powerful maritime nation, to bring to us the coolest and the first water drone in the Mundo. After watching the videos of this hydrospeeder-drone-meets-Tamagotchi, I have to admit I want one. Not only is this thing fast and cute, but it has an onboard HD camera [...]

Each year, an estimated 10,000 shipping containers fall off container ships at sea. Although many of these containers float at the surface for months, most eventually sink to the seafloor. No one knows what happens to these containers once they reach the deep seafloor. From March 8 to March 10, 2011, a team of researchers from MBARI and the Monterey Bay [...]

At 125, Scientist Discover The Deepest Coral Reef ever Found on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia A team of scientists from the Catlin Seaview Survey has discovered reef coral living at 125 meters, the deepest ever found on the Great Barrier Reef. [SlideDeck2 id=1650]   The remarkable find of a community of reef corals was made on the outer edge [...]

When Australian based photographer Kim Preston tackles the problem of ocean plastics and the great pacific garbage patch, she opens a door in everyone psyche where esthetics meet the disastrous impact we have on our oceans. We exchanged a moment online and here is what we learned. ~Tell us about your background where you come from; how you got into [...]

Technique provides insight into ancient formation of underwater plateau NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – Scientists have long used the speed of seismic waves traveling through the Earth as a means of learning about the geologic structure beneath the Earth’s surface, but the seismic waves they use have typically been generated by earthquakes or man-made explosions. A University of Rhode Island graduate student [...]

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 and passion about our blue planet. I have to admit [...]

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 [...]

In the future, warmer waters could significantly change ocean distribution of populations of phytoplankton, tiny organisms that could have a major effect on climate change. Reporting in this week’s online journal Science Express, researchers show that by the end of the 21st century, warmer oceans will cause populations of these marine microorganisms to thrive near the poles and shrink in [...]

Terrestrial crabs, constrained by lack of suitable shells, must take others’ remodeled homes Social animals usually congregate for protection or mating or to capture bigger prey, but a University of California, Berkeley, biologist has found that the terrestrial hermit crab has a more self-serving social agenda: to kick another crab out of its shell and move into a larger home. [...]