Pandemic Escape: Chill With The Krill

Would you like to have the sounds and creatures of the ocean in your house? Now you can fill your home with a virtual ocean aquarium with Krill Waves Radio! Thanks to The Monterey Bay Aquarium, any landlubber can tune in to the ocean through these soothing meditation-like videos, which show us ocean animals such …

Pandemic Escape: 5-Minute Ocean Meditation

We're in multiple emergencies, from the climate emergency to the Covid emergency to the ongoing racism emergency. If you're like us, it's all weighing heavily and very stressful. Fortunately for all who don't live near the healing ocean, the folks at MBARI are offering a series of ocean relaxation videos - from this ocean meditation …

Pandemic Escape: Glow-In-The-Dark Corals Light Up The Deep Sea

Way, way down in the oceans' darkest depths, lights glow and sparkle. For millennia, bioluminescence has been seen in oceans around the world. Indeed, around 50 A.D., Pliny the Elder wrote that one could rub the slime of a certain luminous jellyfish, possibly Pelagia noctiluca, onto a walking stick to make it double as a torch. …

Ocean Zen: Sea Lions Rolling In The Sand (video)

your moment of ocean zen: sea lions rolling in sand

Spotlight: Alexander Semenov, Ocean Biologist, Diver & Photographer

Alexander Semenov is a wildlife photographer ... with a twist. "I think all the people in the world know how tigers and lions looks like, but only a few ever know about scyphozoan jellies – that they can grow up to three meters in diameter and have tentacles of 36 meters," says Semenov. He's been …