The ocean makes up more than 70% of the Earth's surface.
In its depths, possibly around 3,800 million years ago, unorganised molecules united to form the first protocell, the origin of more than a billion species that have appeared since then. The great natural balances are created in the ocean; hurricanes and typhoons are born there, as is 80% of the oxygen we breath. The ocean also provides us more than a quarter of the proteins in our food and yet it is also where we dispose of our waste, the final home for all pollution...
The last border to cross, the last unexplored world on our planet, is the ocean, and we should always remember to take good care of it...
On June 8th, it’s World Ocean Day.
To find out more: https://www.un.org/fr/observances/oceans-day
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Pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus). Tenerife, Canary Islands.
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Mobula ray is jumps out of the water. Mexico. Sea of Cortez. Cal.
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Drifting ice under a dappled sky in the Svalbard archipelago
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Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), mother, calf and escort group criss-crossing the [...]
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Coral in great distress after the passage of a heat wave caused by the El niño phenomenon between [...]
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Camouflage grouper (Epinephelus polyphekadion) gathered for spawning, Fakarava, French Polynesia
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California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) hunting a shoal of South American pilchards [...]
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Bioluminescent plankton or phytoplankton under the Milky Way, Mayotte
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Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) with fully open mouth. Vulnerable (IUCN). The sperm whale is [...]
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Bigeye Trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) huge flock with single Yellowfin surgeonfish (Acanthurus [...]
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Bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana), Mayotte
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Under the Hole, the door to the mesophotic zone, under an arch in natural light at a depth of 60 [...]
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Eyestripe surgeonfish (Acanthurus dussumieri) couple in the clear, turquoise waters of Mayotte's [...]
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Striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, [...]
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Little Tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus) trapped in a net,,Gulf of Naples, Italy
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Green algae on the beach of Binic, Côtes d'Armor, Brittany, France
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Corals potato in the S-shaped channel during a high low tide, Mayotte
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School of sweetlips in very very tight formation. The purpose of this training is to intimidate a [...]
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Blue Sea Star (Linckia laevigata) in coral reef, Pescador Island, Philippines
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Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) eating a discarded condom floating in the sea, Miseno, [...]
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Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) under the surface at sunset, Mayotte
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Ocean sunfich (Mola mola) at sea with pilot fishes (Naucrates ductor), Tenerife, Canary Islands.
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Trichodesmium, also called sea sawdust (Trichodesmium erythraeum). It appears massively in surface, [...]
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Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Turtle got entangled with garbage. Many of them are dead, [...]
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Bleaching of Horn coral in the Seychelles. It is an abnormal increase in water temperature which [...]
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Jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) with a couple of crabs (Liocarcinus vernalis), Gulf of Naples, [...]
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Free diver swimming with sperm whale, (Physeter macrocephalus). Vulnerable (IUCN). The sperm whale [...]
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Tail of a sperm whale diving under the rainbow (Physeter macrocephalus), Vulnerable (IUCN), [...]
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Western Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in Magnificent Sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica), Great [...]
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Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) below the surface, Indian Ocean, Reunion
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Beaked Common Dolphins (Delphinus capensis) group chasing sardines during the period of sardine-run [...]
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Humpback whale jumps out of the water. Beautiful jump. A rare photograph. Madagascar. St. Mary's [...]
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Orca (Orcinus orca) in front of snow-covered mountains, the North Atlantic, in Tromvik, Norway, [...]
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Juvenile Octopus on black background - Tahiti French Polynesia ; bbc contest finals
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Fancy Basses - Great Barrier Reef Australia
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Green sea turtle trying to eat a plastic bag. It looks like a jellyfish. Shot made between 3 and 4 [...]
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Whaleshark sucks on the net of a bagan fishing boat - Papua ; below a bagan fishing boat
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Common Dolphins fleeing attack by Killer Whales
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Iceberg drifting in summer Antarctic Weddell Sea [...]
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African Penguins on the beach in False Bay South africa
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Surfing in the Bay Audierne Finistère France
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Green tide pollution on Fresnaye bay Brittany France ; A boat give the scale.
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Green tide pollution on bouchots for breeding Mussels ; Story : "Green tide in Brittany - 2009"
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Colorfully schooling Fishes Palau Micronesia
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Polar Bears mother & cub distressed on little ice floe drift ; The little ice floe drifting 12 [...]
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California sea lion, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico
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Great White Shark biting in the empty South Africa
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Heart-shaped coral reef Australia
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Clouds and calm sea in Bahamas
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Solitary pine on the cliffs of Maro Cerro gordo Spain