Ocean Science Service

At a special event in Monaco last weekend, Mission Blue partners, the BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit announced that the next event will be held in St. Petersburg, Florida, November 3-9, 2014. BLUE also announced a strategic partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, with plans to bring the global ocean film festival to Monaco every other year starting in 2015! http://bit.ly/1aDoNhu

Some of the leading ocean science minds, including Mission Blue founder, Dr. Sylvia Earle, participated in a live Google+ Hangout, archived here to discuss how technological advancements are creating new ways to research, record and reveal the ocean's health.

Several basket stars rest on a bubblegum coral in Norfolk Canyon, with a colony of the stony coral Lophelia pertusa (white coral) in the background.

We all should protect one of the main sources of our lives - THE OCEAN!

The IAMECO video series welcomes Mission Blue’s founder with their launch of: ‘Sylvia Earle: A Life Lived Under Water to Preserve Our Seas. Read more at http://bit.ly/1aXL3TY