Website Wink: The Ocean Channel

I’m enjoying exploring the ocean over at the Ocean Channel. This site is filled with amazing photography, videos, news and features that make me want to become a marine biologist.

The Ocean Channel is a new-media corporation out of California dedicated to providing high quality, educational, and entertaining ocean programming. It is a portal to the underwater realms that enchant us and inspire efforts to protect them. There are ocean documentaries, educational films, travel logs, and adrenaline sport films are all available online. There is a critical eye on presenting conservation issues which face the global oceans and mounting pressures on the oceans.

President and co-founder Michael Hanrahan leads a dedicated team of photographers, advisors, journalists and documentary film makers. Hanrahan is also involved with developing a web encyclopedia of marine creatures for NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary Program and UC Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute on French Polynesia. He is also collaborating with The Nature Conservancy to produce a documentary film about their restoration work on Santa Cruz Island off of Southern California and is the creator of the Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival (SBOFF), an annual fundraising event for local environmental groups. Contributors to the Ocean Channel are recognized as leaders in ocean films, photography and documentaries.

There’s so much to see and learn about the world’s oceans and The Ocean Channel is a great place to dive in.