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18/05/2017

Ist der nächste Familienurlaub in diesem Jahr noch nicht gebucht? TAUCHEN verlost in Kooperation mit diving.de el Flamenco und den Flamenco Hotels eine herrliche Traumreise nach Ägypten für die ganze Familie – Tauchen inklusive.

18/05/2017

So ein wunderschönes Tier!

18/05/2017

16/01/2017

24/02/2015

The octopus is one of our favorite ocean creatures.
What is your favorite?

Here's your chance to help out with future posts. Comment below your favorite ocean inhabitant (includes flora, as well as fauna, and also interesting places to visit on our amazing, spinning oasis in space) and we will write a post about it in the future. We will feature it and credit you for the suggestion as well. If you would like to share facts or interesting information about your favorite creature, please feel free to include them in your comments. Aloha!

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Photo: Ocean Defender, Turano, Italy
http://www.francescoturano.it
http://www.acquariomediterraneo.it

24/02/2015

Sargassum, a genus of brown microalgae...not to be confused with 'The Sargasso Sea', a region in the gyre in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Gulf Stream; on the north, by the North Atlantic Current; on the east, by the Canary Current; and on the south, by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current. This system of ocean currents forms the North Atlantic Gyre. All the currents deposit the marine plants (and garbage) into this area of the sea. Help us become better stewards of our amazing, spinning oasis in space. Aloha.

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Photo: Ocean Defender, Hicks, Boca Raton, Florida
www.BenJHicks.com
Ben Hicks Fine Art

24/02/2015

Good morning! Aloha!

What is the name of this little guy?

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Photo: Ocean Defender, Dharma
http://www.uwphotographers.net/2014/01/uwp-ajiex-dharma.html

ANSWER: Caprellidae, Skeleton Shrimp or sometimes Ghost Shrimp : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprellidae

22/10/2014

There is no right or wrong place for basking...
Walrus on a Russian sub :)

Keep the peace brother, keep the peace

Aloha
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Mahalo!

22/10/2014

Captivity is cruel and selfish...
If you want to see tropical reef fish, please visit them in the sea.

Aloha
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Photo by Andre Phillip

12/10/2014

Fire worm close up.

Also known as Segmented Sea Worms, Segmented Worms, Tubeworms, Rock Worms, Fire Worms, Bristle Worm, Marine Fireworm and Sea Caterpillar.

Found on coral and rock reefs amongst sand, rubble and sea grass beds. They hide in recesses, under slabs of rock and corals.

They feed on zooplankton and detritus.
Length - 8cm
Widespread Indo-West Pacific

Segmented worms are extremely mobile and possess strong jaws for hunting and feeding on their prey.
Some worms are covered in hairs for protection scavenging on the sea floor for detritus. While others are delicate fans protected by their self made tubes, which they retreat back into when threatened, these are filter feeders and feed on plankton.

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Photo by Suzan Meldonian

12/10/2014

The ornately colored sea anemone (uh-NEM-uh-nee) is named after the equally flashy terrestrial anemone flower. A close relative of coral and jellyfish, anemones are stinging polyps that spend most of their time attached to rocks on the sea bottom or on coral reefs waiting for fish to pass close enough to get ensnared in their venom-filled tentacles.

Their bodies are composed of an adhesive pedal disc, or foot, a cylindrical body, and an array of tentacles surrounding a central mouth. The tentacles are triggered by the slightest touch, firing a harpoon-like filament into their victim and injecting a paralyzing neurotoxin. The helpless prey is then guided into the mouth by the tentacles.

There are more than 1,000 sea anemone species found throughout the world’s oceans at various depths, although the largest and most varied occur in coastal tropical waters. They run the full spectrum of colors and can be as small as half an inch (1.25 centimeters) or as large as 6 feet (1.8 meters) across.

Some anemones, like their coral cousins, establish symbiotic relationships with green algae. In exchange for providing the algae safe harbor and exposure to sunlight, the anemone receives oxygen and sugar, the bi-products of the algae's photosynthesis.

They form another, more famous symbiotic alliance with clownfish, which are protected by a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s tentacles, getting protection from predators, and the anemone snacks on the scraps from the clownfish’s meals.

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Photo by Anna Shvab

05/05/2014

05/05/2014

Photo by Timothy Rollo
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24/04/2014

A Huge nudibranch ( D. krusensternii) cruising the sand. Photo by Mia Evans. Click to enlarge.

24/04/2014

A rather attractive little fellow. A Peacock Blenny (Salaria pavo) By Andrey Nekrasov.

23/04/2014

I passed by old yeller on the commute home every day my freshman and sophomore year. He was an annoying little mutt of a dog that would yap and squelch every afternoon. It was the most annoying part of an otherwise good day. Oh God how he announced my solitude and cut the silence of the setting sun.
In my junior year he was silent. Didn’t notice how pleasant my commute had become really. Not for a while. Then one day I saw past the chain link fence at a small white cross with daffodils beginning to bloom at its base. The shadow of the fence brought back two years of passing travel. Never knew his real name. Come to find out he got shot by an annoyed passer-by.

Sounds, even seemingly annoying ones never bother me much now. Loud motorcycles, early gardeners, someone’s pumping stereo, even children playing a little more boisterous than ought, … It’s all life, and life among the living. It sounds good. And it beats the beep beep beep beep beeeeeeeeeeeep of my work place(in a hospital). So be more gentle to yourself and kind to others. Every little thing is simply, special. You don't need money or trinkets. And it’s a very short time span that you get to interact with each other…
There is an old saying that goes kind of like this: "Carve your name on heartbeats and not tombstones. Your signatures will last forever that way."

Happy Earth Day! Really, it's Happy Us, We, You and I Day so we can show our children how to live and love pono. And therefore it's really- Happy Childrens' Day as we spin in this one amazing oasis in space.
~ Jay (one of your admins)

Aloha
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Photo: Rinie Luykx,(tagged)
http://www.rinieluykx.nl/
( A Myoxocephalus scorpius, cold water fish. Photo taken in the Netherlands)

DEFENDER - Hawaii

23/04/2014

Aloha Ocean Defenders!
This is the temporary link to our GLOBAL ACTIVATION MAP, http://www.kauaiworld.org/oceandefender/map/

We are re routing and will have the same address soon. For now, PLEASE check out our new web site and JOIN our OFFICIAL OHANA MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM!

Click on the right side link and GET READY to become the future leaders of the earth, we need you now more than ever!

Mahalo for all your love and support...

Aloha

An Emperor shrimp riding on the back of a nudibranch by Henry Jager. Click to enlarge.

23/04/2014

Aloha Ocean Defenders!
TODAY at 12:00 HAWAII Time we are doing the switch to our new website and sharing our new GLOBAL ACTIVATION MAP.

This is our official OHANA membership program and your chance to become a part of our web of active OCEAN DEFENDERS through out the world.

With your Ohana membership you will be able to PIN your name on the World Map and not only share your events and activities but learn how to become a leader in your community.

ARE YOU READY?

From April 22nd Earth Day to May 22nd the memberships will only cost 10$ Dollars. This is the time to join and be one of the first official supporters of our organization!

Together we can create a CHANGE in the WORLD...

Aloha
~Oriana

www.oceandefenderhawaii.com

Photo credit : Ocean Defender, AreWeDreaming: Underwater Photography by Thomas Ozanne
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Thomas Ozanne
via- Fusion Freediving and Yoga

23/04/2014

Underwater Art

David and Goliath
Photo by Octavio Aburto

23/04/2014

Come and join me and the gang as we get the seal of approval as we visit the Farne Islands in Northumberland in October '13. We've been visiting here for the last…

27/02/2014

Photo of the Day!

How many fish can you count? Photo by Leo Pan in Sipadan, off the coast of Malaysia.

26/02/2014

To think that these extraordinary creatures were used as fuel in the 1800's is a distant nightmare to fathom...

Years from now we will think the same about senseless slaughters of dolphins or whales for either research or human entertainment.

Saving the ocean and the world also means saving ourselves as a race because at the rate we are going we will also be extinct soon.

So there will also come a day when we look at ourselves as a race and have only a vague memory of the atrocities we committed towards each other.

Aloha
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Photo by Ellen Cuylearts

06/02/2014

Humphead Wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)

Happy Birthday to Alexander Mustard!... From your friends at MarineBio.org

Photo Credit ~ Alex Mustard
www.amustard.com

04/02/2014

Tauchen für jeden: Die International Disabled Divers Association (IDDA) bildet Taucher und Tauchlehrer mit und ohne Handicap aus. Für viele eine besondere Erfahrung, die sie nicht mehr los lässt.

04/02/2014

Studies have found that animals are as aware and conscious as humans... Gosh finally!!!!

The body of scientific evidence is increasingly showing that most animals are conscious in the same way that we are, and it's no longer something we can ignore.

What's also very interesting about the declaration is the group's acknowledgement that consciousness can emerge in those animals that are very much unlike humans, including those that evolved along different evolutionary tracks, namely birds and some cephalopods.

Read more here, http://io9.com/5937356/prominent-scientists-sign-declaration-that-animals-have-conscious-awareness-just-like-us

Aloha.
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Photo by Pasquale Vassallo

29/01/2014

Snorkeling isn't the most difficult skill to master--especially compared to scuba diving--but only breathing through your mouth is a skill that doesn't come easy to everyone. The Easybreath mask promises to make first-timers seem like snorkeling pros with a full face design that lets anyone breathe…

14/01/2014

A Coconut Octopus using a coffe cup for shelter by Bo Mancao.

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14/01/2014

An Octopus flares out to appear intimidating to warn away a diver by Garcia Patrick.

Aloha.
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06/01/2014

Ein Delfin hatte offenbar in einen Angelköder gebissen und sich in der Leine verfangen. Er vertraut sich einem Taucher an, der ihn befreit.

06/01/2014

Vor der australischen Küste auf Tauchgang zu gehen, ist der Traum eines jeden Unterwassersportlers. Allerdings kann das auch ein gefährliches Unterfangen sein, ist doch vor allem die westaustralische Küste für ihr Haiaufkommen berühmt-berüchtigt. Damit soll jetzt Schluss sein: Haie warnen Taucher kü...