Category: Marine Biology
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Where the Forest meets the Sea

A cinematic journey through forest, ocean, and sky, “Where the Forest Meets the Sea” follows a woman’s quiet transformation as she witnesses the power and grace of birds of prey. From diving ospreys to soaring eagles, the film becomes an immersive experience of flight, culminating in a transcendent glide into the sunset.
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Preview: The Spiritual Engineers

The Spiritual Engineers is a sweeping science-fiction epic about the evolution of consciousness, ethics, and responsibility on a cosmic scale
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The Enchanting Tale of the Abalone Song

“The Abalone Song” is a folk ballad that evokes a time when life was simple, the sea was sacred, and poets gathered to sing by firelight. Inspired by real coastal traditions, the story follows a group of bohemian artists as they harvest, cook, and celebrate the ocean’s gifts through laughter, ritual, and song.
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Mermaid Planet: Lirael’s Last Song

Humanity’s quest for a new home leads them to Tethys, an ocean world inhabited by mystical mermaids whose songs hold the secrets of harmony with nature
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What Lies Beneath: the mutant slab of Shipstern Bluff

For a long time is was a myth. Both a dream and a nightmare, A perfect mutant slab far off the trail. A slab of epic proportions. It’s Teahupoʻo, arguably the gnarliest wave in the world, on steroids. Welcome to Shippies.
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Armageddon

The orange-red sun glows in the crimson fog. Ash rains down, the smell of smoke on the air. The streets are sparse, only a few walking cautiously with black face masks, looking sinister. The setting for a futuristic dystopian scientific fiction novel? Unfortunately no, it’s now.The future of our nightmares is with us. Armageddon? Not…
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The Akoni Four Challenge: How Surfing Can Teach Us How To Live

As we strive to survive during the first true global pandemic, we should reflect inward and rejoice in the many gifts we receive from mother Earth that we depend on, especially the sea. Here I focus on the lessons we learn from surfing and how it teaches us to live.
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What Lies Beneath: Conquering Fear at Banzai Pipeline

PIPELINE. Just the name shoots fear through my heart. Insanely hollow tubes breaking over a shallow coral reef. The steep drop, crazy speed, and all the while the fear of the dark reef gliding below, always reminding you of what happens if you fail. Conquering that fear is the ultimate challenge. And for many years…
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Launch of Songs of Thalassa

It’s finally here! After blogging for seven years about marine biology, surfing, and science I have pulled it all together in my new book, Songs of Thalassa. The book is based on extensive scientific research, including astronomy, marine biology, surfing, and ocean science, all set in the reaches of deep space. The plot follows the…
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Walking Whales and The Rise of the Cetaceans

Whales are the most marine of all creatures yet I never fully appreciated their terrestrial origins until I saw the walking whales.









