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Special ships called ‘icebreakers’ are needed to access some areas of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
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Bow of an Icebreaker

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Oceanographers divide the ocean into three broad zones, each with different species.
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Zones of the Open Ocean

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Blackbeard the Pirate engraving
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Blackbeard the Pirate

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Pirate William Dampier's shipboard artist carefully recorded the species that Dampier found new and unusual.
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Australian Fish and Cuttlefish

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The next time you use any of the following words, think of William Dampier. They are just a few of the more than 1,000 words Dampier contributed to the English language: Avocado, Barbeque, Breadfruit, Cashew, Chopsticks, Posse, Tortilla.
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Dampier in the dictionary

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A diver collects water samples.
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Scientists Collect Samples for Ocean Sampling Day

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Trout cages in 30 feet of water.
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Feeding IMTA Trout

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Brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) nest in a mangrove in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.
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Pelican Nest in Mangroves

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Portrait of a scallop with black and white striped lips, whose shell is encrusted with a red sponge.
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Scallop

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Colorful fishes throng a reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Reef Fish, French Frigate Shoals

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Back at the lab, researchers sort the fish specimens they gathered in the field.
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Sorting a Fish Station

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Two longsnout seahorses underwater.
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Longsnout Seahorse

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