Oceanic Society

If you’ve followed the Colorado Avalanche fan community’s growing fascination with humpback whales, you know it all started with forward Parker Kelly. After returning from ...

If Raja Ampat is the crown jewel of the Coral Triangle, Sulawesi is the doorway to it. Shaped like a strange, orchid-petaled starfish and straddling the biogeographic line that Alfred Russel Wallace once used to divide Asian and Australian wildlife, Sulawesi is where marine biodiversity gets serious and terrestrial biodiversity gets weird, in the best possible ways. For trave...

For over a decade, the community of Loreto, Baja California Sur, has championed a model of small-scale, sustainable ecotourism centered on the whales that gather each year in Loreto Bay National Park to feed and rear their young. This spring, that commitment was put to the test when a presidential decree threatened to expand cruise ship access to the UNESCO World Heritage sit...

There’s something special about seeing an expedition through the eyes of a fellow traveler.

If you’ve ever wondered what a week of snorkeling Belize’s Turneffe Atoll and Great Blue Hole actually feels like, one of our recent travelers just answered that question better than any brochure could.

Sea turtles have been navigating a changing planet for more than 100 million years. They have outlasted ice ages, shifting continents, and rising and falling seas. But the pace and scale of climate change today is one thing turtles have never experienced...