ocean

Maybe it’s the sweet sounds of the string instruments or the incredible paper-cutout animation, but this video certainly makes the death and decomposition of a whale seem a bit romantic.… Read the rest

I probably don’t even need to say it, but: one-use plastics suck. Thanks to our disposable culture, we’re not only filling our landfills with the synthetic products, basically made to never disappear completely, but also our waterways and oceans, and pretty much everywhere else.
Thankfully, it isn’t just the environmentally-conscious… Read the rest

Google’s new data center, located in Finland, is cooled using a readily available resource: the ocean. Instead of using refrigerants and compressors (common cooling techniques) to cool down the heat generated by tons of servers, the data center uses granite tunnels to bring in ocean water, which is then, according… Read the rest

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) is a non-profit environmental group based in the U.K. that focuses on protecting the country’s oceans, waves and beaches so that people may safely experience them for years to come. SAS was founded in 1990 by a group of surfers “sick of getting sick” from sewage… Read the rest

When surfer Kevin Cunningham saw trash and debris washing up on shore, he took it. And he put it–plastic bags, bottles and glass–into the surfboards he crafts by hand.
Cunningham began Spirare Surfboards as a way to explore “innovative surfboard design using alternative materials and methods to make highly functional… Read the rest

The following is a compilation of haikus–written by members of the 5 Gyres crew–that are the result of a crew-wide haiku-writing exercise.
They’re beautiful in their own right, but furthermore give insight into the minds, sights and senses of the 5 Gyres crew and their journeys across the ocean. (To… Read the rest

The digital world is an expansive and inclusive one. And now, thanks again to Google, it can even bring us below the concrete surfaces of Earth, into the depths of the ocean. Google Earth recently launched what seems to simply be called ‘Ocean’, which enables you to explore the entire… Read the rest

America has National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries and bumper stickers that announce Keep Tahoe Clean… Read the rest–but we have yet to protect our nation’s waves with the same fervor–until now.
As of this Saturday, October 9th, Malibu’s Surfrider Beach–an iconic area for surfers around the world–will become the first World Surfing Reserve

Armed with an outrigger canoe and a few necessary goods, Margo Pellegrino began paddling on July 3rd, which commenced her trip from Seattle to San Diego designed as a call to action for the health of the world’s oceans. Pellegrino hopes that by paddling through the Pacific she’ll effectively speak… Read the rest

A shot that is sure to make any lover of the ocean (or Earth itself) cringe. The caption from Daily Mail’s article reads: “Crude oil washes ashore in Orange Beach, Alabama, where swimming is banned.”
[Via: Daily Mail]
[Photo Via: Daily Mail]… Read the rest