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Hey I’m Benji, a photographer, freediver, and researcher who documents dynamic spaces and species… As a queer person, I love to take photos of the in-between spaces:...
NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries opens its 2026 Get Into Your Sanctuary Photo Contest on 22 May, with four new categories spanning wildlife behavior, people...
The World Ocean Celebration Festival returns to Miami on 30 May to 8 June 2028 for its largest edition yet, convening artists, scientists, and ocean advocates...
As lobsters retreat north and Jonah crabs take their place in Southern New England fisheries, a URI Ph.D. student is studying whether offshore wind turbine foundations...
Three poems by Cornish pastoral poet and queer activist Andrew Searle: CREATIONIST, hold my hand, and Icarus Bound. A meditation on the ocean as embrace, immersion,...
Graduate student Junjing Li on what "translating science into policy" actually demands: deep scientific grounding, plain-language communication, and real-world relationships. A field guide for the next...
The Ocean Census mission has identified 1,121 new marine species in a single year, a 54 percent jump that lands the week of World Biodiversity Day....
For our Pride issue, marine mammal specialist and UN Ocean Decade Ambassador Niru Dorrian returns to SEVENSEAS for a personal interview on visibility, allyship, and what...
There is a moment in David Helvarg’s new book where Julie Packard, on her retirement as CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is asked by a...
From the Gulf of Mannar's coral reefs and dugongs to the temples of Madurai and Thanjavur, the new Pamban sea bridge, and the Koovagam festival: a...