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Artificial sea grass on low wave velocity. Caption: researchers tested artificial seagrass.

A pod of dolphins swims at the surface of an ocean. Caption: They are being very cooperative.

Two cartoon characters looking up with open mouths. Caption: (Moki) It's not only a big fish; it's also sleepy too.

A hermit crab with no shell walking along the ocean floor as fish swim behind. Caption: I must find a new house soon.'

A baby sea turtle swimming in the ocean, descending towards the ocean floor.

A seal swimming underwater near the ocean floor. Caption: still remain to satisfy diurnal scavengers

Text reads, “Algae,” against a black and green background.

Two dolphins swim in the tranquil blue waters of the ocean.

Digital illustration of a gray shark swimming through the ocean directly at us, teeth bared. Text reads, “Sharks.”

Deep in the ocean, we see a shark with sharp teeth swimming through the waters.

Penguin chick perched on the feet of an adult penguin. Caption: Adults walk with newborns on their feet and under blubber

Machinery with pipes connecting different pieces. Various levers and dials scattered throughout the machinery. Caption: connecting to protein skimmers, connecting to heat exchangers.

A lionfish. Caption: (Angelina) One big difference is the fish and their metabolism.

Person in scuba gear underwater with ocean life. Caption: basically dispersing food out for a big group of fish,

Aerial image of a coral reef. Caption: is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World,

Illustration of the northeast coast of North America and a yellow cylindrical sub with fins sending and receiving signals from an orbiting satellite. Caption: What are we finding when we go below the waves?

Illustration of a squid emitting a glowing cloud while a submarine passes closely. Vampire Squid. Caption: but some animals use it to warn or evade predators,

A group of seals on a rock near the sea. Spanish Caption: (Jose) Estamos alrededor de los 4500 visintantes por ano,

A dolphin in blue water. Caption: As soon as I see my dolphin friends,

An underwater column of mussels with person in scuba gear in the background. Caption: Mussels are filter feeders--

Man in a Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Staff polo shirt speaks to us in front of a manatee habitat.

A gray seal. Caption: Gray seal pups, thick with blubber, dot the island.

Global map of coral reef acidification. Yellow, orange, and red currents swirl across the globe. Map title reads, "Coral reefs and aragonite saturation. 499." A color scale reads from yellow to blue, "3.3, limit for carbonate coral reefs."

Closeup of a coral reef with different shapes, colors, and sizes of coral. A school of bright blue fish swims over the coral towards dark blue waters in the background.

Closeup of 2 yellow and black striped fish and a blue tailed fish swimming through ocean coral of varying sizes and shapes.

View below and in front of a sea turtle gliding through the blue ocean. His eyes look up and his flippers are pointed down taking strokes as his legs and tail extend behind him.

A discoloured coral colony labeled, bleached coral colony. Caption: The symbiont provides 75 percent to 80 percent of the energy.

An aerial image of a coral by the sea shore titled, Arrecife De Coral. Spanish Caption: podemos ver de que estan hechos estos arrecifes.

Close up of waves on the shore. Caption: it is dramatically changing the chemistry of the ocean.

Close up of globular coral with a striped tropical fish swimming in front. Caption: We will learn how super corals are being developed in the lab,

Gloved hand reaching into a small tank to pick up a piece of white coral being grown on a disc. Caption: that fight some of the worst infectious bacteria.

Towering coral reef with swimming fish as seen from below against the ocean surface. Caption: (narrator) But the whole reef system is in incredible danger.

Coral reef with a variety of marine plant and animal life. Caption: The goal is to restore the coral reef

Jagged shoreline with rough waves and plant life growing at the crest of the rocky peaks. Caption: ocean acidity will double by century's end

Extreme closeup of the cell structure of coral showing rectangular shape in the center of textured cell material. Labeled, (algae) ZooXanthellae. Caption: Zooxanthallae live inside some of the coral's cells.

Generally spherical white coral consisting of countless individual arm segments on the ocean floor. Caption: and the solution of their rescue might be within.

Flat, fan shaped, leaf-like structures grow off coral while a person in scuba gear swims by. Caption: Much of their oxygen comes off the coral reef.

Aerial view of a coastline with a coral reef running parallel to it. Caption: But the Great Barrier Reef isn't just old, it's huge.

Title text reads, "Coral Reefs," against a black background.

Front view of an orange squid swimming in the ocean. Caption: She can either keep it or toss it away as she chooses.

Still image from: Crash Course Kids Earth Science: The Life Hydrologic

Still image from: Crash Course Life Science: Water Water Everywhere

Still image from: Crash Course Life Sciene: The Basics of Freshwater

Close up of an anglerfish on the ocean floor with a flat belly, an ovoid, spiny body, and a rod protruding from its head. Caption: distinguished by the rod protruding from its head

Mass of twisting, turning arms with tiny sharp hooks. Caption: Basket stars are able to grow their limbs back

Large, light colored bathysaurus swimming along the bottom of the ocean. Caption Indonesian waters. Caption: (male narrator) This creature was found 6900 feet deep in the ocean.

A close up of a fish against a dark backdrop. Closely set fins and spots on face. Caption: Its skeleton is made of cartilage.

A sea spider with long, extremely thin legs crawling on the ocean floor. Caption: (male narrator) This creature was found 2300 feet deep in the ocean.

A blue whale in the water, from above. Caption: Blue whales are the largest animals

Dugong face with the body visible behind it. Caption: but it's actually a descendant of elephant lineage.

Adult male penguin with multiple penguin chicks and a few adult penguins in the background. Caption: He searches the colony, calling for his chick…

A sea turtle in the sand. Caption: most of a sea turtle's life remains a mystery.

A humpback whale seen from below. Caption: Today, just 10,000 remain in the North Atlantic ocean,

A hammerhead shark, seen from below. Caption: (narrator) Bull sharks, tiger sharks, and hammerheads.

A leopard seal with its mouth open. Caption: Armed, dangerous, and extremely hard to find,

A Hawaiian monk seal as seen from below. Caption: The Hawaiian monk seal is on the brink of extinction.

Industrial metal pinchers pick up a giant pile of discarded fishing nets. Caption: "You're gonna make electricity out of old nets? How?"

Two sea turtles swimming in the water. Caption: tells her to go back to that same beach.

Two people standing next to a long, rectangular indoor pool full of small fish. In the background there are many other pools. Caption: They'll be about two years old when we release them

Cartoon of a peg-legged sea captain talking to three kids and a bird. Caption: Thank Neptune you're here!

In a darkly lit library, Delete and Buzz from the cartoon Cyberchase sit at a table with a pile of books across from them. Text reads, “Coral Grief.”

An all-white octopus perched on a rock protruding from the ocean floor. Caption: ["Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven playing]

Closeup of the white iridescent shell of a California floater mussel.

Computer rendering of a starfish's tube feet, bending at an angle from the base of its leg, as if it's leaning forward on the ground.

Closeup of a sea slug crawling across a bright green plant. The slug has an elongated irregular body that is pale yellow with black tiger stripes.

Long, spindly legs protrude from an extremely narrow body and other strange creatures. Caption: It's not like life like we're used to on the surface.

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: Danger in Coral Valley

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: Friends of the Sea

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: One, Two, Three--Hop!

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: Sports Day

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: The Galleon's Treasure

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: The Lucky Marble

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: Vinegar’s Machines

Still image from: Delfy and His Friends: Where’s That Bomb?

Four orange jellyfish dive down into the blue water of the ocean.

Pie chart diagram showing that the atmosphere contains 1/5 oxygen. Caption: Two ways of O2 entry. Caption: Oxygen makes about 1/5 of the atmosphere,

Dugong outlined against the surface of the water as seen from below. Caption: This is the story of Dugong & Din.

Manatee swimming in the water. Person in scuba gear in the background. Caption: Manatees are actually incredibly graceful creatures.

Person on boat holding a rope attached to a whale in the water. Caption: But steps continue to be taken to help protect this species.

Close up of a sea turtle swimming on the ocean floor. Caption: There are seven different species of sea turtles,

Human hand holding a small, thin brown shark. The shark fits neatly into the palm of the hand. Caption: Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution. Caption: the small dwarf lantern can fit in the palm of your hand.

Close up of a sawfish on the ocean floor. It has a large flat body with a long tooth-lined shaft from the mouth. Caption: (male narrator) Sawfish are large, shark-like rays

View from space of a prehistoric earth that is mainly covered in land and slim streams of water in between the two land formations.

Illustrated copepods of different colors, shapes, and sizes. Text reads, “Copepods.”

Computer rendering of a walrus perched on the shore, rearing is head back with mouth open, showing 4 long, thick teeth protruding from its gums on the top and bottom.

Dickinsonia fossil from the Ediacaran that is symmetrical and round with rib-like segments that are radially inclined towards the wide end from a central ridge.

White cartoon lobster with a line the same length of its tail next to it.

Text reads, "Fish" over an illustration of several fish in various sizes and shapes.

A school of small thin fish swimming in the water. Caption: Farmers raise fin fish using a variety of methods,

A school of small fish swim underwater through plant life. Caption: Fish live in oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams,

Father and son float in a peaceful lake, fishing together in a canoe.

A diagram illustrates a fish.

A very large fish swims in the water with a school of smaller fish in the background. Caption: These gentle giants are goliath grouper --

Fish packed in being dumped out of a bucket onto a metal production line. Caption: I think we have a good product because of our regulations.

A sea turtle swimming in the water. Caption: but from the moment he saw his first green sea turtle

Person holding a shell to their mouth. Caption: Our forefathers traveled the oceans far and wide,

Curving "C" shaped island with sharply elevated sides. Caption: Now the Galapagos is again a scientific frontier

Person in scuba gear with scientific equipment as seen from below. Caption: (man) I found out that the sharks on the reef were in trouble.

Scuba diver swimming over a teeming coral reef. Caption: (man) it's almost like a small laboratory for us.

Scuba diver swimming over a coral reef. Caption: I would go out every day and scuba dive on the reefs,

Coral reef in foreground, plant life, swimming fish and sandy ocean floor in background. Caption: (Sherman) This is what a healthy reef should look like,

Book cover shows an illustration of Little Critter watching with surprise as a sea park employee pulls an octopus off a large frog. Text reads, “Going to the Sea Park. By Mercer Mayer.”

A group of scientists catch a gray seal in a net.

Reddish and light-colored plantlike organisms growing from the ocean floor. Caption: for a variety of organism, including deep-sea corals,

Text on image reads, BioMedia Associates. Hidden Biodiversity. The background depicts different types of microorganisms.

Microscopic view of oval shaped organisms. Caption: Ciliates are a group of single-celled organisms

Microscopic view of oval and tubular organisms. Caption: make their own food using the light

Closeup view of a clear, jelly-like egg cluster underwater. Caption: The transparent eggs allow us

Points of light against a dark, textured background. Caption: many adaptations to support movement.

Microscopic view of an oval shaped organism with a mouth-like opening at one narrow end. Caption: These microorganisms are so small,

Closeup view of a mosquito. Caption: The adult mosquito is now ready

Microscope view of oval shaped organisms with globular protrusions. Caption: There are 2000 species of rotifers.

Microscopic view of tubular organisms with background debris. Caption: adopted by some microorganisms is gemmation.

Microscopic view of a transparent roundish organism with a visible face and legs. Caption: a reproductive strategy called parthenogenesis.

A cast of horseshoe crab in the swampy waters. Caption: The tail, or telson, acts like a rudder when swimming

Pencil sketch of a sea turtle as the artist adds detail to the front flippers. Title card reads, "Shoo Rayner." Text at bottom reads, "www.shoo-tube.com."

Aerial closeup of a hand using a black pen to trace over a pencil drawing of a side view of a squid on white paper.

Black and white ink drawing of a whale as the artist holds a pen off to the side. Title card reads, "Shoo Rayner drawing."

Aerial closeup of a hand using a black pen to trace over pencil drawings of 2 different types of starfish on white paper.

Still image from: Human Elements: Balancing Our Catch

Still image from: Human Elements: Climbing for Ancient Algae

Still image from: Human Elements: How Otters Can Save the Sea

Still image from: Human Elements: My Ancestors Were Scientists

Still image from: Human Elements: Orcas, Better Versions of Us

Still image from: Human Elements: The Plastic in Everything

Still image from: Human Elements: Think Like an Octopus

An oceanic map. A scale shows a submarine diving below 3000 feet.

A diagram illustrates a seal going to dine on a squid.

Closeup of a small, shelled animal being eaten by a somewhat larger shelled animal while in a bed of grass. Caption: (male) The horse conch eats other snails.

Map of the Southeast United States. Most of the coastline of Florida is highlighted in a narrow band. Matanzas Reserve is at the upper eastern edge. Black Mangrove historical range (approximate). Caption: If there is a sustained freeze, typically they will die.

Buckets filled with water, mesh fabric covering the top. Tubes running down the center of two adjacent rows, a cord running into the water of each bucket. Caption: Hearing experiment Phase 2 They needed to investigate if mud crabs can hear.

Beige, light, and dark brown conical shell. Southern oyster drill (Stramonita Haemastoma). Caption: It's not clear what role drills or conchs play.

Crabs, various grasses, snails, and broken shells. Caption: The marsh can be a rough place for plants to live.

Spat on a tray. MB Masonboro Inlet North Carolina. Caption: Spat from each family was placed on test reefs.

Close up of an opened oyster shell with a fork in the flesh. Caption: We're talking about Apalachicola oysters.

Conical shell in sand and seagrasses. Caption: (Hughes) In many world areas seagrasses are declining.

Area of high density wrack is mostly dry while low density wrack has standing water. Caption: They set up almost 100 plots comparing densities of wrack.

Person standing on the deck of the boat with a crab cage in their hands. Ecosystem Service Creating Jobs. Caption: marshes provide many of the same benefits as oysters.

Person standing in ankle deep water and grass holding a clipboard leans down and reaches into the water. Caption: She is researching coastal salt marshes.

Open expanse of water dotted with small, flat grass-covered islands. Cedar Key, Florida. Caption: They pretty much lost all their mangroves.

Map of coastline showing St. Joseph Bay, Apalachicola, Carrabelle, Pancea and others. Study site marked inland. The forgotten coast. Caption: It is an ideal setting for studying coastal ecosystems.

Water splattering with text that reads, “Underwater Invasion.”

A grey rock like landmass projecting out of water. Spanish Caption: El nombre de esta bahia proviene de la Balandra,

A sea bird sitting on the sand. Spanish Caption: y cabeza y cuello de un gris mas cenizo,

A group of sea birds preaching on a tree top. Spanish Caption: Espiritu Santo es habitat de plantas.

A man swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: y de ahi suben al norte del lado del pacifico mexicano.

A scuba diver swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: ilevara a saber que nuevas areas

A school of small fish swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: (hombre) y en esa zona donde estan insertas estas islas,

A group of scuba divers on a boat. Spanish Caption: Sin embargo, pescadores, aventureros,

A shark swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: pez luna, tiburones, delfines…

A school of small fish swimming underwater. Spanish Caption: Cada ano incremento.

An aerial view of a swamp. Spanish Caption: donde se entremezcla el agua dulce y salada,

Person standing in a boat holding an octopus. Caption: They actually come in to eat just the fish.

Man and boy stand at the edge of a large, blue, circular tank filled with water. More tanks fill background.

Split screen with closeup of a brook trout swimming in water on the left and a sturgeon swimming in water on the right.

Color illustration of pattern of yellow fish attached to hooks alternating with gray fish swimming in water. Dashed vertical lines split image into fourths. Title bar across top reads, "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter."

3 quarter view of a girl and a boy wearing wide-brimmed hats and neckerchiefs. Girl holds out a fishing pole over a lake surrounded by vegetation.

Digital illustration. 2 silhouetted figures stand on a boat and dip nets in water as 2 fish swim toward them. 2 poles extend from boat and dangle forked appendages into water.

Closeup of fish caught with hook in bubbling green water.

lionfish. Caption: People buy them because they're beautiful fish.

Sea lion props itself up on a deck in front of man who squats under a canopy next to a pool of water.

Closeup of a stingray with its fin lifted as it glides towards a brick wall under water.

A brokenplastic container is found on the shores. Caption: Broken pieces are becoming part of the beach.

Four dolphins of various sizes swimming closely together in the water. Caption: These pods are groups of moms who all have had babies.

Rainbow trout is held up in front of us by a person crouching off to the side next to stream of water. Text reads, "Rainbow Trout."

Illustration of a person sitting with their back against a tree. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Lab Six: Marine Mammals (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Sea Mammals (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Sharks (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Sharks II (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Turtles (Spanish)

We look up at the underside of a hammerhead shark with its open mouth baring sharp teeth as it swims in teal water.

Lionfish swimming in the ocean surrounded by smaller fish and plants. Caption: Lionfish in the Atlantic are here to stay.

Salamander blends in with the sand in its underwater habitat.

Close up of head and shoulders of a manatee swimming under water. Caption: USGS

A bird floats underwater while a school of small fish swirl around it. A marlin approaches from below. Caption: and the frenzy intensifies as marlin compete

Sand dunes with sparse grass. Caption: Maritime forests are important for coastal resilience.

Cartoon of a bright yellow seahorse and a shark swimming in a brightly colored coral reef. Caption: You are so good at hiding in that colorful coral reef!

Closeup of microscopic green and blue organisms superimposed with a title card that reads, "Microscopic monsters."

Microscopic view of a green organism with long, tubular arms coming off a central body. Illustration of a ship next to it. Caption: Around these creatures are single-celled organisms.

Microscopic view of roughly oval shaped organisms. Caption: We've found what these stream insects feed on -- diatoms.

Magnified view of a very small animal with a segmented body and many legs. Caption: Only in a waterfall are there such creatures.

Magnified view of an orangish-red irregular shape. Caption: and seems to be feeding on microorganisms.

Microscopic view of spherical green objects. Caption: we call the process photosynthesis.

Irregularly shaped mostly transparent object as seen through a viewport in an out-of-focus structure. Caption: According to my key, it's called an amoeba.

Cross section of earth. Different layers of rock and soil have a jagged crack running down them. Caption: a complex and very ancient assemblage

Gas saturation scale showing CO2 and O2 percentage of saturation. Indicator is outside of normal range on the CO2 side. Caption: The CO2 reading is going off the scale.

Microscopic view of roughly oval shaped organisms surrounded by much smaller green spherical objects. Caption: I want to look closer at how they feed.

Close up of a snail. Caption: The snail moves very smoothly, almost as if it were sliding.

Black and white image of a male statue holding Kraken's tentacle. A black and white illustration of a man being attacked by Kraken appears under the image. A brown book with gold foil lettering that reads, "The Toilers of the Sea" sits to the left of the image.

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Northwest Oystermania

Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Seattle’s Complicated History With Orcas

Window into a large fish aquarium at the John G. Shedd Aquarium. Several different types of fish swim by, including 2 that are shiny silver, tall, and thin, and have squared-off foreheads.

Danni Washington listens to a man as they stand in a laboratory next to a shelf holding aquariums and equipment.

Microscopic imagery compares bacteria cells in neat rows on a sharklet surface versus clusters of bacteria cells on a standard surface starting to spread.

Bald man wearing a T-shirt on a boat in the sea looks over to the right.

Man wearing a light blue polo shirt working in a workshop with a wall stacked with surfboards behind him.

A photo depicts a shallow coastal region teaming with colonies of corals

A coastal region on the geographic map of West America is shown as the background. A region on the map of America is highlighted. Caption: Monterey Bay California. Latitude, 36.80 degrees North. Longitude, 122.00 degrees West. Average Rainfall, 480 millimeters. Sea Temperature, 11 to 15 degrees Celsius.

A large number of fishes are swimming in the deep sea. Caption: Deep Sea. Extent, 42% of the earth’s surface. Average depth, 4000 meters. Temperature range, minus 1.9 to 4 degrees Celsius.