Featured Ocean Gallery
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Documentary
A three-week long kayak journey - from California, through British Columbia and Alaska - delivered us to one of the loneliest and least known spots on Earth...
The characters lead us past the traditional fisherman stereotypes, revealing the possible end of an era and the creation of a new breed of environmentally conscious divers.
"Human activities, both knowingly and unknowingly, affect the ocean. A team of 19 scientists, including one from NOAA, undertook the task of mapping how humans have impacted the ocean over time."
Dr. Peter Edmunds, a scientist at the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research site discusses efforts to understand how climate change impacts coral reefs.
The story of New Zealand's paua (abalone) fishery as seen by one of its most colorful characters. A story of excess and consequence.
The Ocean Channel is proud to present this online exclusive about a unique group of marine scientists, conservationists, musicians, and Olympic athletes as they travel to the fantastic waters of the Bahamas to study and swim with wild dolphin.
Waterman/producer, Greg Huglin, takes us beneath the surface of some of the most dangerous waters on the planet for a close up look at the great white shark.
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Conservation
Commercial lobster fishing is said to be one of the more sustainable fisheries. Learn what a day on the water with one salty fisher looks like...
"Deafeningly loud sonar is a proven danger to marine life, but its use throughout the world's oceans is spreading."
A short PSA about the ocean and getting involved in ocean activities to protect it for future generations. Produced by ThankYouOcean.Org
A powerful documentary on the status of sharks in French Polynesia. Revered in many Polynesian legends, sharks are now endangered because of increasing overfishing. An eye-opener!
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Sports
Join writer and producer Jon Bowermaster and his team of photographers on their kayak journey along Croatia's coast, through an archipelago of islands atop what astronauts claim is the bluest sea on the planet, the Adriatic.
A musical journey linking together people, places, surfers, airplanes and beaches into a kaleidoscopic collage of images and sounds sharing a common theme: the ocean and its ever-changing sights and moods.
Surf legend, David Pu'u, offers up a beautiful look at the best time of the year...
Filmed in 16mm and professional DV, "Soul Fly" captures the essence of kite boarding as well as an intimate look into the progression of freestyle riding. The beaches of Malibu and Venice, California serve as the backdrop to this gritty, well-edited film.
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A three-week long kayak journey - from California, through British Columbia and Alaska - delivered us to one of the loneliest and least known spots on Earth...
"Over 60 percent of Tijuana’s raw sewage flows directly into the river, through the Tijuana River Estuary and into the ocean."
Filmed in 16mm and professional DV, "Soul Fly" captures the essence of kite boarding as well as an intimate look into the progression of freestyle riding. The beaches of Malibu and Venice, California serve as the backdrop to this gritty, well-edited film.
Swimming 26 miles across the Santa Barbara Channel off of California's coast sounds crazy to many people. But these dedicated conservationists are doing it for more than the exercise.
"This expos on the world dolphin trade is one of many made by the new conservation group Blue Voice. One of their principal concerns is halting dolphin hunting, for both meat and the captivity trade, in Japan."
For the past several years, the Southern California coastline has had dozens of sea lions and other marine animals washing up on its beaches, afflicted with a strange and complex condition.
A student from UC Santa Barbara's BLUE HORIZONS environmental media project asks important questions as she explores the consumer bell jar. What is 'sustainable?'
Join a team of research scientists studying the behavior and the migration patterns of giant mantas and other big pelagics in the Socorros Archipelago, off the coast of Baja, Mexico.
On a quiet and foggy summer evening along the shores of the Otago Harbor in Dunedin, New Zealand there is an unusual animal moving through the shallows.
An Ocean Channel original film about the Channel Islands National Park and The Nature Conservancy's efforts to restore Santa Cruz Island, the largest of California's Channel Islands, to ecologic balance.
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