OceansIQ is your portal to engage, become better informed and spread the word about marine life globally. World-class marine science and exceptional video story telling combine to give you a new way to boost your Oceans IQ. A new way to understand our world's oceans and the wildlife that lives in them. Oceans OIQ is a groundbreaking, new, free online and social media product dedicated to telling t
he Ocean's stories. OceansIQ creates the ability for end users globally to access and visually explore the world’s oceans and to learn about marine animals, plants, habitats, management issues and research through our website, YouTube Channel, blog and social media channels. Delivered through a collaborations of some of the world’s leading scientists, research facilities, filmmakers, science communicators and social media sites, this new concept ensures a highly visual, educational and informative way to better understand and identify our world’s oceans and the wildlife that lives in them. The OceansIQ concept grew through a clear understanding that stories involving moving vision are known to be the most effective form of targeted and broad audience communication, having the highest audience recall of any media and as a medium are the most effective in changing people’s attitudes and behaviours. We are at a crucial point in the Earths history now where currently our oceans are under greater threats than ever before. With overfishing, pollution and global warming as just a few of the issues that they face, we run the risk of losing species, interactions and processes that we have barely identified. OceansIQ enables a vast cross-section of the public from marine and tourism professionals, primary to tertiary education faculties, dolphin, shark and whale enthusiasts, to the armchair scientists around the world, to engage and become better informed, to raise their OIQ and to spread the word globally.
