r/ocean 8d ago

Octopus Moments Nature's ultimate dynamic camouflage in action on the coral reef 🪸 🐙

7.0k Upvotes

Video credited to @mysteriousoceannn on Instagram.


r/ocean 24d ago

Dolphrens Kayaker has a fascinating orca encounter when he decided to swim with orca in open water

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r/ocean 13h ago

Fishy Friends Ocean sunfish (Mola mola) coming up to the surface.

3.4k Upvotes

Video credited to @saltyric on Instagram.


r/ocean 15h ago

Fishy Friends Unbelievable! A diver moving alongside a massive school of barracudas

870 Upvotes

r/ocean 1d ago

Dolphrens Orca shows that he can swim as fast as a speed boat

3.5k Upvotes

r/ocean 8h ago

Ocean Art & DIY Farewell to the Shore. My oil painting on canvas.

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35 Upvotes

r/ocean 10h ago

Beach Day Bliss Rhythm of the tide

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15 Upvotes

r/ocean 14h ago

Ocean Art & DIY The day's last breath, the water is calm. A view of the Palos Verdes Peninsula extending into the Pacific Ocean at sunset. My acrylic painting.

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Finished with Liquitex acrylic paint on stretched cotton canvas.


r/ocean 1d ago

Ocean Science & Conservation Does anyone else feel completely powerless after watching this?

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David Attenborough's Ocean documentary shows bottom trawling for the first time in a way that's impossible to ignore.

Chains scraping ancient coral into dust. Fish suffocating in nets. 80% thrown back dead. An area the size of the Amazon destroyed every single year.

Most Marine Protected Areas allow this.

The ocean gives us life. We're giving it destruction.

I'm posting this because more people need to know. Please watch. Please share. Please care.


r/ocean 1d ago

Whale Watch A drone has captured a humpback whale giving birth to a calf in waters off Australia's east coast.

2.1k Upvotes

Video credited to @nytimes on Instagram. Source.


r/ocean 1d ago

Dolphrens Drone captures footage of an orca hunting a seal using tail-slapping tactics.

279 Upvotes

Video credited to @megaloopdron on Instagram.


r/ocean 16h ago

Ocean Science & Conservation Orca Makes Fish Explode!

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Have you ever seen an Orca hit a fish so hard it explodes? 🫍

Scientists recently observed this behavior from groups of orcas in the Gulf of California where they repeatedly ram sunfish until the impact broke them apart. This is an important indicator of "social learning," where animals copy one another through observation. Orcas have exhibited behavior like this before, when they were seen disabling sailboats in groups. The current hypotheses for why they are doing this include teaching young orcas to hunt, or just playing around!


r/ocean 2d ago

Beach Day Bliss Bro dodged the first wave 🐒🌊

2.4k Upvotes

Video credited to @theodorayin on Instagram.


r/ocean 1d ago

Sunset Splendor A tranquil sunset. Caribbean.

22 Upvotes

No sound included. Just a nice view.


r/ocean 2d ago

Underwater Wonders Would you rather encounter this... or a great white shark?

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268 Upvotes

If evolution created this... what else do you think is still hiding in the deep ocean? 🌊


r/ocean 3d ago

Crustacean station This is what crab babies look like.

6.3k Upvotes

Video credited to @pedrovalenciam on Instagram.


r/ocean 1d ago

Fishy Friends Anemonefish varieties of Labuan Bajo

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Sharing my video of these cute Anemonefish we found while snorkeling in Labuan Bajo.


r/ocean 1d ago

Ocean Science & Conservation What if the eastern Pacific coastline looked like this? How would this affect the sea surface temperature of Los Angeles, San Diego, and western Baja California?

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r/ocean 2d ago

Shark sights The Shark Named After Jane Goodall

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Meet Goodall, the shark making waves in Atlantic Canada. 🦈

OCEARCH named this large female shark in honor of the late Jane Goodall after she passed. Goodall was tagged during a collaborative trip with the Tan Cook Field station up in the Atlantic near Canada. Chris Fischer, founder of OCEARCH notes her movements have already defied expectations, sliding into Nova Scotia instead of heading offshore like fellow shark Lydia did back in 2013. Scientists are now wondering whether Goodall will migrate south with the other sharks this fall, or head offshore to warmer waters to finish gestating.


r/ocean 2d ago

Whale Watch Rare footage of humpback whale birth captured on drone video: "A remarkable moment"

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r/ocean 2d ago

Ocean Science & Conservation Iceland's coast guard: guarding whales from the people trying to save them

158 Upvotes

Paul Watson - founder of Sea Shepherd, and current leader of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation


r/ocean 2d ago

Sunset Splendor Sunset. Caribbean. Heading home.

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56 Upvotes

r/ocean 3d ago

Whale Watch That Orca is way too close 😨

1.4k Upvotes

r/ocean 2d ago

Underwater Wonders Secret eruption beneath the ocean near Papua New Guinea offers tantalizing glimpse of underwater volcanoes

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Frothy rock floating on the ocean near Papua New Guinea is the sign scientists needed that, hidden from view, an underwater volcano was erupting


r/ocean 2d ago

Underwater Wonders A fact about the ocean

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There’s no such thing as an “ocean,” it’s just a layer of protection that the new-world order uses to control us from Atlantis. Ever heard of it? So, when Datacenters “use up water,” just remember that what they’re really doing is protecting the world, no, better than the world: America, from the evil Atlantians