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Field Reports
Superpod of Dolphins off Dana Point, California
I'm sure you've heard of, and probably seen a pod of dolphins. This is a superpod. Enjoy. Read More »
Pushing the Limits with a Portable Dive Habitat
We love ingenuity in the name of exploration and knowledge. This is a great example. Read More »
Discovering the Billings Shipwreck
72 years after she was sunk by her owner, Patrick Smith and crew explore the wreckage of the Billings. Read More »
Sam’s Tonga Journal, Part 3
The latest update from our intrepid AC on location in Tonga. Read More »
Remnants of Japan’s Tsunami Attract an Archaeological Interest
Coming across Japanese tsunami debris has an unexpected effect: personalizing a tragedy. Read More »
The Shark Tale Files: The Old One
I had felt the shark, before I had been spun. I knew it was there. I had experienced something very rare. Would I do it again? Read More »
My Journey to America’s Inner Space Station: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Asteroid
Ask 10 people if they’ve heard of an inner space station where aquanauts live 60ft underwater and they'll look at you like your nuts. Read More »
In Hot Water
Dr. Stephen Palumbi and team research the world's strongest corals Read More »
Field Report: A Deep See Experience
We were in Cocos Island National Park, 300 miles off Costa Rica’s west coast. And it was my first time in a submarine. As I put on the ... Read More »
Field Report: Going Deep on Cocos Island
360 nautical miles off the western shore of Costa Rica, a group of ocean operatives quietly prepare for a tactical dive on the rear deck ... Read More »
Field Report: The Race to Document Biodiversity
The most extraordinary aspect of biodiversity to me is the way in which every living thing on earth, everything that has ever lived on ... Read More »
Field Report: A Choreographic Feeding Frenzy
Whenever I see a reef with an enormous abundance of large predators, I always wonder, where does the food come from? Read More »
Field Report: High-Tech Tools, Primeval Wonders
Our drop-point was an undersea pinnacle known as Mount Everest. Howard and I would cling to the outside of the Deep See sub and ride it ... Read More »
Field Report: A Parade of Sharks, Dazzling Yet Diminished
Cocos Island is perhaps best known for an abundance of large marine animals, sharks in particular. Most iconic of these are the vast ... Read More »
Field Report: A Visual Feast in the Undersea Twilight Zone
My colleagues and I have spent the past two decades traveling the tropical Pacific Ocean to document life that occurs below the realm... Read More »
Field Report: Polar Bears Are The New Canaries
In November, One World One Ocean traveled to Churchill, Canada—the “polar bear capital of the world”—to highlight the issues facing arctic.. Read More »
Join OWOO on a Journey to Cocos Island…
This week, the OWOO crew hopped a flight to Costa Rica where will will be reporting live from Cocos Island, one of few areas of the ocean that enjoys official protection given its incredible beauty and biodiversity (e.g., SHARKS). Not only will we be bringing you live expedition updates, including amazing photos and video, but we'll also be sharing ways in which you can help grow the movement to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) around the world, and in effect, help save the ocean. Read More »
Field Report: The Inside Scoop on the Inside Passage
We're sitting in a cove off Chatham Strait, a tributary of Alaska's inside passage, surrounded by steep hills covered in green conifers... Read More »
Field Report: Portrait of a Polar Bear Family
From July 19 to August 9, 2010, our team traveled the seas around the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, in a small ice-breaker... Read More »
Field Report: Diving With The World’s Largest Cuttlefish
With wind waves crashing against the rocks, the water surged and heaved, making it impossible to hold a motion picture camera steady. Read More »
Field Report: In the Company of Dragons
Michele and I swim through murky water toward tiny explosions of light firing from a flashing strobe. Read More »
Field Report: The Most Beautiful Sea Lions In the World
I have traveled to South Australia seven times during the last forty years and on only two of those occasions have I seen good conditions. Read More »
Field Report: Dancing with Australia’s Great Whites
Our shark cage stops at 60 feet, holding four of us and our cameras. We are here to see great white sharks. Read More »
