Imagine, if you will, that you live in a giant pineapple under the sea. Your neighbor is a fun-loving but academically limited starfish, your boo is a space-suit-wearing squirrel, your boss is a fast-food-flipping, pile-driving crustacean, and your enemy is one of the most important group of organisms on the planet! If you can imagine that, then our ocean community is the place for you.

Think of it as a MySpace for all the critters--large and small--that live in the sea. Viruses, bacteria (two flavors - regular and ancient), phytoplankton (tiny globs of green that do good), zooplankton (larger blobs of various colors that eat the green globs but in doing so also do good), nekton (food that swims and occasionally eats us), and the whales and dolphins and selfish sea birds ("mine, mine, mine..."), and even us--the humans--belong here in the deep blue sea!

Here's a place to celebrate our world ocean, to explore its nooks and crannies, to experience its deep and mysterious currents, to frolick in its waves, to taste its bitter but intriguing spice, to look at, talk to, and shake fins with all of the beautiful living things that work and play in the world ocean, especially you and me. Dive in!

At the same time, it's a place for you to keep and express your most profound thoughts and reveries for the remarkable ocean world. It's a place for you to share your discoveries, your adventures, your scary fish stories, and your joys and passions for the ocean world. Everyone loves a salty story...let's hear yours!

Join us...explore, discover, meet new creatures, and create your own...add your name to our beautiful little reef.