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A pocket of oil inside a Japanese WWII shipwreck.
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Three Threats, Three Books

The Ocean Foundation has a new project that aims to bring awareness about the threats of bottom trawling, potentially polluting wrecks (PPWs) and deep seabed mining (DSM) to Underwater Cultural …

Bobbi-Jo Dobush speaks at the ISA meetings. Photo by IISD/ENB - Diego Noguera
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A Turning Tide in the July 2024 International Seabed Authority Negotiations

The 29th Session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) continued this month in Kingston, Jamaica, with Council and Assembly meetings. The Ocean Foundation’s Deep Sea Mining lead, Bobbi-Jo Dobush, and …

Solomon “Uncle Sol” Kaho‘ohalahala speaks at an event held by the Te Ipukarea Society on the importance of intangible heritage and Indigenous experiences with the ocean. Photo credit: Bobbi-Jo Dobush

Underwater Cultural Heritage at the International Seabed Authority (ISA)

The Ocean Foundation (TOF) has been involved with the conversation on Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) since the beginning — TOF’s expertise on physical UCH …

A Mylar balloon on the shoreline of Santa Rosa Island off the coast of California. Credit: Courtesy of NOAA Marine Debris Program

Please Don’t Let Them Go

It seems at once hopeful and dramatic: Dozens, even hundreds of brightly colored balloons released by the celebrants and their guests, drifting off into the sky. But it is not …

A diver explores an underwater wreck.

Dive into Underwater Cultural Heritage

What is Underwater Cultural Heritage?  UNESCO defines underwater cultural heritage (UCH) as all traces of human existence of a cultural, historical or archaeological nature which, for at least 100 years, …

An oil slick from a WWII shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia.
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Potentially Polluting Wrecks: First Steps Towards Remediation

Our Ocean Heritage is expansive. It includes physical objects on the seafloor like shipwrecks and submerged coastal settlements, and also non-physical connections to the sea, including Indigenous and local customs …

A deep sea coral community
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Invest in Ocean Health, Not Deep Seabed Mining

Advocates for deep seabed mining (DSM) claim it promises a gilded, sustainable future chock full of electric vehicles, but at what cost? Between breakthroughs in new battery technology, technical risks, …

Request for Proposal: Potentially Polluting Wrecks
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CLOSED: Request for Proposal: Project Manager to Lead Work on Potentially Polluting Wrecks

The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is seeking a Project Manager to lead work on Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPW).

Spinning Earth with text that says "It's called the blue planet for a reason"
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Earth Is the Blue Planet

Celebrate Earth Day with us by honoring the reason why Earth is called the blue planet — the ocean! Covering 71 percent of our planet, the ocean feeds millions of …

Guam Green Sea Turtle Hatchlings

Announcing the 2024 Boyd Lyon Scholar

The 2024 Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund’s winner was Jaime Restrepo.

Nearly 8,000 red mangroves growing in our nursery in Jobos Bay. We started building this in March 2022.
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Golden Acre Foods to complete $1.4M donation for habitat restoration in Puerto Rico by 2024

Golden Acre has been partnered with The Ocean Foundation since 2021 and is proud to support their mangrove and seagrass restoration projects. The project work that The Ocean Foundation is …

Announcing park designations for Nopoló and Loreto II, providing ecological protection to a pristine and biodiverse coastline in Baja California Sur, Mexico

On August 16th 2023, Nopoló Park and Loreto II Park were set aside for conservation via two Presidential decrees to support sustainable development, ecotourism, and permanent habitat protection.