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A "dumbo" octopus is captured by an ROV.
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Capturing a Deep-Sea Octopod

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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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A placard warns residents that water—and anything else—that goes own this storm drain makes its way into the Potomac River and, eventually the ocean.
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Marked Storm Drain

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Fire fighting ships surround the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig, shooting water at it to put out the flames.
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Deepwater Horizon Fire

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a ships sets a purse seine.
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Purse Seine

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a succulent plant with small purple flowers in sand
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Sea Purslane

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a orange spotted jellyfish
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Orange Spotted Jellyfish

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a shark and a group of pilot fish with black and white stripes
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Oceanic Whitetip Shark and Pilot Fish

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The face of a serpent eel pokes up from beneath the sand.
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Sea Serpent

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Two whales attack a ship on a map
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Whales of the Carta Marina

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Scientists use satellite images of the ocean to estimate chlorophyll concentrations in the water. You can see the yellow swirls of phytoplankton concentrated at the sea surface in this image.
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Satellite Image of Chlorophyll Concentration

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This is a series of images showing how a typical nightly courtship display would look like, where certain males initiate the display (2), others follow (3), and different species display their own unique “light shows” nearby (4 and 5).
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A typical nightly courtship display for P. annecohenae

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