Ocean

Located in West Boothbay, the Maine State Aquarium is an opportunity for your family to learn about, AND TOUCH, the sea creatures that inhabit Maine's coastal waters.

The Maine Ocean School expects to launch for the 2018-19 school year.

I took a jaunt to the beach on this chilly morning and took in the beauty that could have been from a sci-fi movie.

Here’s something you don’t see every day, a walking fish. A fish that is described as something out a sci-fi horror movie. The ‘walking fish’ has feet, toes and a human looking nose.

A resident of Hawaii, Dorina Rosin, is planning to give birth in the ocean surrounded by dolphins. A British reality show on unique births, will video tape the event for their show called ‘Extraordinary Birth’.

Something people have been doing for years just got conformation from the American Chemical Society, its O.K. to pee in the ocean! They point out that urine is 95% water and whatever else is in it doesn’t pose a threat to ocean life.

A couple in Florida had to tread water in the ocean for 13 hours after they fell off the back of their boat. Sean McGovern of Key Largo and Mellisa Morris visiting from Texas were off the coast of Key Largo when the fell off the back of their boat. The boat was in gear and just kept motoring away.

Water covers nearly 75% of the Earth yet there have been more men to land on the moon than have gone to the deepest depth of the ocean. The deepest part of the ocean is the Marianna Trench and only two men have ever traveled there, 12 have gone to the moon.

Have you seen the video? Had I been the person videotaping the encounter, I would have been in awe. I know they were! Can you imagine THIS happening to YOU?

Marine biologists at the University of Hawaii and the University of Tokyo have attached webcams to the fins of sharks in the hope to study their habits. Thirty sharks of various types were fitted with the webcams that include a camera, sensors and VHF transmitters.

Recent studies by the University of Exeter in England suggest that living near the ocean may be good for your health.  Lori Fleming says studies show spending time at the ocean has positive effects on your health and well-being, which has been the thought for many years, but now studies seem to confirm the theory.