Ocean Geographic explores the dynamics of our ocean planet. As all on Earth are connected with the sea, Ocean Geographic focuses on getting to know who’s who in the sea, allowing you to appreciate the complexity of the oceanic life forms that make up the vast biospheres, while understanding the environmental influences and climatic conditions that make our plane a hospitable place.
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ELYSIUM
A team comprising of the world’s best nature conservation photographers, film makers, artists, musicians and scientists will embark on an imaging epic from the Weddell Sea of Antarctic Peninsula to South Georgia. The team will be documenting the life above and below the ice, more or less following the trail of the 1914 Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 28. It was the greatest true adventure story of the last century.
The explorers comprise of David Doubilet, Jennifer Hayes, Wyland, Amos Nachoum, Heather Angel, Leandro Blanco, Álvaro de Marichalar, Michael AW and Jamie Watt will be producing a book, a movie but most importantly to curate a visual index database for climate change references of the Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia. This 2010 expedition is billed to be the greatest photographic epic of the 21th century. If you wish to contribute or participate in this epic of a colossal scale email: info@ElysiumEpic.org
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Celebrate the Sea Festival 2008 comprises of an international underwater film and photographic competitions, workshops on underwater photography, seminars of our ocean environment, children's painting competitions and a Shoot Out competition. Read more »
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Featured Articles
The Drifters
Cabell Davis PhD, Russel Hopcroft PhD
There are more animals in the sea than on land…many times more. The dominance force behind all life on earth are the tiny, minute beings the drift across the vast expanse of the ocean. The definition “Plankton”, microscopic, infinitesimal animals was first coined in 1887 by Victor Henson at the University of Kiel, Germany, is derived from the Greek word “planktos,” meaning “drifter”. Most offspring of marine animals in larvae form do not resemble their parents….Read More
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The Colours of Ice.
Stephen Nicols PhD
I’ve spent over a year on research vessels in the waters around Antarctica and for much of that time I have been surrounded by ice. Ice is great, provided you are on a rightfully fitted sized icebreaker. Ice provides texture for an environment that might otherwise be a featureless ocean
Requiem for a Middleweight
by Doug Perrine
It was the New Year’s party to end all parties – tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of revelers, coming from miles away to participate in a masked costume ball under the full moon culminating in a massive transsexual orgy of group sex. It went on annually for thousands of years, until it turned into an orgy of bloodletting and slaughter. Finally, it was over. The last party animal had been killed and eaten by a member of an alien species – our own.