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Help Fund Adrian Grenier’s “Loneliest Whale” Campaign to Find the World’s...
Artwork: Shepard Fairey The first thing you may be wondering is, why would such a prolific actor begin a Kickstarter campaign for $300,000 when he’s richer than Poseidon? Good question. We’ve got no...
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Animal Shred: Surfer turned Artist Kate Barattini Blends Waves with Animals...
Monarch Shred. Courtesy of Kate Barattini. Kate Barattini’s exhibit Animal Shred is a series that expresses the animal soul of surfers. While surfers shred and glide they are exposing the truest part...
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Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling in the Southeast Atlantic : What You Can Do –...
Residents of North Carolina’s Outer Banks gather in Kill Devil Hills to protest oil and gas activities off their coast. Photo courtesy of Randy Sturgill, Oceana. Today marks the fifth anniversary of...
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Adriana Basques’ Gallery ‘Giants’ of the Sea
Whale shark by Adriana Basques. Check out award-winning photographer Adriana Basques’ gallery of the giants that rule the sea. This series of ‘big animals’ photographs contrasts against her ‘miniature...
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Watch an Orca Whale Chase and Nibble a Standup Paddleboard
Screenshot from 3 News/Luke Reilly. Standup paddler Luke Reilly was about 200 meters offshore of New Zealand on Monday when a killer whale popped up behind him. It investigated him for about five...
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The Return of Migaloo, the Albino Humpback Whale and Friends to Waters off...
Migaloo. Photo from My Modern Net. Excitement is building along the eastern coast of Australia as whale watchers anxiously await the return of Migaloo, the all white humpback whale, made famous in...
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Watch and Listen to Orcas in Deep Conversation off Alaska
Photo: Tim Melling/Flickr. Most of us have heard the songs of the whales, whether it’s been in museums, nature documentaries, and some of us have even played their aural works of art at our bedsides...
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This Is What It’s Like to Dive into a Humpback Whale Brawl
“Not every interaction is so calm and peaceful. When you swim with whales, sometimes you get a playful juvenile, but other times you can find yourself in the middle of an all out frenzy.” Above: Four...
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This Week in Dramatic Maritime Rescues, The USCG Frees a Pair of Turtles from...
Still frame from Go Coast Guard’s video. The United States Coast Guard–and most any Coast Guard around the world–does a lot more than save seamen and obliterate drug-running vessels; they are saviors...
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Here’s What You Should Know About the Littlest Porpoise and What You Can Do...
Above: The vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Photo: Flip Nicklin, Minden Pictures/Corbis. The vaquita is a tiny endangered porpoise that exists within a narrow 1,500-square-mile patch of the Pacific Ocean...
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“If Everybody Did Something, We’d Get Somewhere…” Susan Casey Talks Story...
Susan Casey swims with the dolphins. Photo: Susan Casey. Former Editor of O: The Oprah Magazine and creative director for Outside Magazine Susan Casey, is author of New York Times bestsellers The...
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PBS’ “Big Blue Live” Tonight: A Multi-day and Live Affair in Celebration of...
Humpback whale in the Monterey Bay, California. Photo courtesy of Cathy Munsch. Editor’s Note: A few years ago, Scuttlefish writer Carolyn Sotka and Dr. Stephen R. Palumbi authored a terrific book,...
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Dolphins as Midwives? The Mother-to-Be Who’s Forgoing Hospitals and Nurses...
Dorina Rosin and her partner Maika Suneagle have decided to give birth in the ocean, hoping for a pod of dolphins off Hawaii’s Big Island to act as midwives. Photo: Photo: © Channel 4 (Great Britain)....
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The US Navy Agrees to Reduce Deadly Sonar for Cetaceans off California and...
Photo: John C. Bruckman/Flickr. Mankind is a blaring bunch, yet it’s only with the help of machines that we’ve been able to disrupt the so-called ‘Silent World’ below. And even with the advantage of...
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New Zealand Announces Plans to Expand the Kermadec Marine Sanctuary to the...
Above: A rizzo’s dolphin which came to play off the bow of Tindori. This species of dolphin is only found in the waters surrounding New Zealand. Photo: Owen James Burke. Just the other day, I came...
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Humpback Whale Songs, in Sheet Music
Screenshot from video below. We first heard whale songs thanks to a network of microphones designed to detect Soviet submarines, but it wasn’t till a group of scientific researchers and mathematicians...
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Some Whales That Dodged Harpoons in the Days of Herman Melville Are Still...
It may be unlikely, but it’s quite possible that some of these mammoths crossed beneath the feet of American novelist Herman Melville while he was aboard a whaling ship in the 1840s, unwittingly...
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Whale Burps up Sea Gulls: Sadly They Don’t Survive the Ride
Dead seagulls floating. Photograph posted on Facebook by James Mead Maya. Last week, over 30 dead seagulls were sighted by James Mead Maya while he was captaining his boat at sea. Perplexed as to what...
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“The Ocean is a Scary Beautiful Place.” Life in Salt: Karim Iliya on Travel,...
“For me, it’s about seeing things, and the camera is just a machine. I just use that machine to show people how I view existence.” Photo: Krannichfeld Photography/Courtesy of Karim Iliya. At just 24...
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Watch a Family of Bottlenose Dolphins Rescue a Struggling Seal Pup Under...
Screenshot from the Oasis HD video below. The seal cub, either tired, confused or frightened, was lagging off the coast of Canada when a few gulls prepared to gang up on the lagging pup. Suddenly, as...
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