Develop Your Ocean Literacy
Knowledge is power and we hope this collection of our favorite ocean organizations and educational resources will help you to learn about one (or all) of these 7 Ocean Literacy Principles:
Trusted Organizations
Hydrous-Vetted Media
Blue Planet: Coral Spawning (2:13)
This incredible underwater footage collected by the BBC (and narrated by David Attenborough) showcases the natural phenomenon of synchronized coral spawning.
Just How Deep does the Ocean Go? (3:29)
Is the ocean as deep as mountains are high? How deep have humans traveled? What about whales? This animation visualizes ocean depths in a compelling way, providing a sense of scale and vastness.
Chasing Coral (1h 33m)
An inspirational film about a team of divers, photographers and scientists who set out to document coral reef degradation around the world.
Coral Bleaching Animation (3:47)
Zoom in from coral reefs to coral colonies to coral polyps for a close-up look at coral bleaching. Learn how the symbiosis between the coral animals and their plant-like symbionts (zooxanthellae) breaks down with extreme heat.
Coral Bleaching before vs. after side by side video (:48)
The Hydrous Chief Scientist Dr. Erika Woolsey collected this footage from the same reef in southern Japan about a year apart. She left the island of Iriomote in June 2016, just as the reef began to bleach, and returned in July 2017. Most corals in shallow regions had died from the bleaching event, caused by sustained, higher than normal water temperatures. Notice how bright and golden the living corals were, compared to the muted grays and greens of the dead corals.