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We use the power of media and storytelling to amplify ocean solutions. Founders: @mitty and @paulnicklen
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Is there anything more beautiful than the bond between a man and his giant manta ray friend? We promise this virtual screening of @thelastdivefilm will make you laugh, move you to tears, and leave you utterly enchanted by Willy the manta and his underwater world. As our co-founder @Mitty always says, “what we fall in love with, we fight for.”
Visit the link in our bio to get your tickets and enjoy the film right from your home!
11 Nov 2026
Terry is a legendary figure in Baja Mexico, an American veteran who has spent decades living on and in the water. But it was an unlikely friendship with Willy, a 22-foot oceanic manta ray, that would change his life. For nearly two decades, the two shared an extraordinary bond.
That connection inspired Terry to become an unexpected conservationist. The waters they explored are now part of Revillagigedo National Park, North America’s largest marine protected area and a vital refuge for numerous species, including oceanic manta rays.
Now in his 80s, The Last Dive follows Terry as he embarks on one final journey in hopes of reuniting with his old friend to say goodbye.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker @Cody_M_Sheehy and produced by acclaimed Mark Monroe, The Last Dive is a visually stunning and deeply moving story of friendship and our connection with the natural world.
SeaLegacy and The Last Dive have teamed up for a special online screening that includes footage from our own team’s ventures to the famous national park. Get your tickets at the link in our bio!
Images by @Mitty
10 Nov 2026
Did you know the temperature of the sand determines the sex of a sea turtle?
Sea turtles nest on warm beaches, burying their eggs in the sand and leaving the rest to nature. The warmer the sand, the higher the ratio of females, making turtle nests an early warning system for climate change.
A five-year study in Türkiye found warming was linked to earlier nesting, shorter incubation, and hatchlings around 70% female. If warming continues, there may eventually be too few males to sustain populations, and nests above 30 C risk killing embryos.
The ocean has absorbed around 90% of the excess heat from human-caused warming. It is our biggest ally against climate change, and it is paying the price. Over the next two weeks, COP31 is taking place in Türkiye, co-hosted by Australia — two sea turtle nations. The ocean must be part of the conversation.
Tag @TurkiyeCOP31 and help us urge both governments to deliver an ambitious package for the ocean, with concrete outcomes.
Photos by @Mitty
#OceanSchool #COP31 #COP31Türkiye #OceanAndSeas #OceanAction
07 Nov 2026
BIG NEWS 🌊 Starting November 10, @thelastdivefilm will be available through a special viewing experience — for a limited time only.
Watch the full film online, plus tons of exclusive bonus footage:
🎬 Behind the Veil — Director @cody_m_sheehy takes us through the craft of underwater cinematography, how composer @paulleonardmorgan orchestrated the soundtrack, and how it all weaves into an underwater soundscape.
🧠 The Big Questions: Animal Consciousness & Communication — Join Bob Rubin of @pacificmantaresearchgroup for the science and mystery of the manta's large brain, animal consciousness, and the biological possibility of interspecies communication.
🫧 A Mental Health Break — Sit back and let our stunning cinematic show of underwater life take you to that buoyant place of peace. Set to the sounds beneath the surface, it's 20 minutes to return to you.
💙 A Message from Cody — How he met Terry, found 19 years of footage, and how his experience turned him into a Manta Lover. And now that you are too, Cody shares how we can protect what we love.
The program will also feature special footage by @sealegacy and other ocean allies! 🎟️ Get your ticket to this special viewing experience — link in bio.
06 Nov 2026
In 2023, researchers pulled 403 pieces of plastic from a single seabird. It was the most they had ever recorded, and the start of three record-breaking years in a row.
Justin Gilligan (@justingilligan) is a conservation photojournalist, National Geographic Explorer and Associate Fellow of @ilcp_photographers. He has contributed to 25 feature articles for Australian Geographic and has been awarded seven times in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, including three category wins. Through his work, he highlights our connection to the beauty and fragility of the natural world.
Justin has been documenting the work of @adriftlabscience, who have spent 16 years studying sable (also known as flesh-footed) shearwaters on Lord Howe Island, where around three in four adult birds have been found carrying plastic. Chicks start swallowing it before they ever leave the nest, fed by parents who mistake it for food. With less room in their stomachs for real meals, the birds grow weaker, and researchers have even found scarring in their digestive tracts. These shearwaters travel thousands of kilometres across the Pacific, so what they carry home is, as Justin puts it, “a record of the ocean they inhabit.”
Read more about the latest research in the @natgeo feature “These Seabirds Are So Full of Plastic They’re Starving to Death” - link in bio.
#ILCPCollective #SeaLegacy #ILCP #Shearwater #Seabirds
05 Nov 2026
In the past two years, the U.S. administration has rolled back environmental protections, opened protected ocean waters to commercial fishing, weakened the Endangered Species Act, and slashed staffing across America’s national parks. It has also proposed deep cuts to the National Park Service budget, putting the future of public lands and the people who protect them at risk.
The midterms may not solve every environmental challenge, but they can give nature more of a voice and help protect the nation’s environmental legacy going forward.
So to our American community, if you care about healthy oceans, thriving wildlife, protected public lands, and a livable planet, please go vote! Our planet needs people who are willing to stand up for it!
Photos by @Mitty and @PaulNicklen
#Midterms #Election #Vote
03 Nov 2026
It’s a moonless night. Mist hangs low over glassy water. Out of the fog drifts a ghost ship, sails torn and rotting, deck empty. Fins slice the water around it.
Sailors once whispered of a rogue wave that swept its crew overboard, and oceanic whitetips rose from the deep, closing in with the coordination of wolves. Now the ship belongs to them, cursed to drift the high seas forever. Happy Halloween!
Of course, it’s only a story. The real horror is what humans have done to oceanic whitetips. For millions of years, they ruled the open ocean as one of its most abundant large predators. They evolved to be bold and curious because food is scarce out there and every encounter counts. That curiosity now draws them to fishing boats, and in just a few decades, longlines, driftnets, and the fin trade have wiped them out by 98%.
Healthy sharks mean a healthy ocean. This Halloween, trade fear for awe and come face-to-face with one of the ocean’s most ancient wanderers!
Photos by @Mitty
#Halloween #Horror #Shark #OceanicWhitetip #Explore
31 Oct 2026
From 450 to more than 25,000. 🐋
In 1950, only 450 humpback whales remained in the South Atlantic. Today there are over 25,000. That comeback wasn’t the work of a single government, company, or organization, but the work of people with different backgrounds coming together.
Scientists documented the collapse. Artists gave the whales a voice. Citizens and organizations raised theirs for decades. Governments answered with international agreements. Together, they pushed for the global ban on commercial whaling and the ocean responded.
But this story isn’t over. Humpbacks still face climate change, ship traffic, and fishing gear, and commercial whaling continues in countries like Japan, Norway, and Iceland. It’s time to speak up for our ocean — because going from 450 to more than 25,000 proved that when everyone takes part, we can do it.
That’s why Ocean Catalyst exists: bringing science, policy, private sector, and society to the same table. Join us — link in bio 🌊
Photography by @Mitty
#OceanCatalyst #HumpbackWhales #OceanConservation #SaveTheOcean #BuildingHope
29 Oct 2026
“Powerful images can do more than inspire wonder,” says @iantmcallister. “They can give a voice to places and wildlife that cannot speak for themselves.”
Ian McAllister is a Canadian conservationist, photographer, filmmaker, author, and co-founder of the wildlife conservation organization @pacificwild. He has authored or co-authored 12 books and produced numerous documentary films, including the award-winning IMAX film “Great Bear Rainforest”. His visual storytelling has taken him from offshore bottom-trawling grounds to mountaintop grizzly bear dens, documenting human-caused destruction alongside intimate portraits of the rare and vulnerable wildlife of Canada’s Pacific coast.
In 2009, Ian travelled to Mexico to meet @mitty with an idea to bring @ilcp_photographers to BC’s Great Bear Rainforest, where a proposed pipeline would have sent oil tankers through its remote fjords. Within months, a team was on the ground for a Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE). Coastal First Nations were already leading the fight, and the images that came back of sea wolves and spirit bears became the face of a growing movement. The pipeline was defeated, and in 2019 Canada banned large oil tankers from much of the coast.
Today, with the election of BC’s first Conservative government in nearly a century, pipelines and tankers are bringing renewed pressure to BC’s coast. But for Ian, this campaign is still one of the clearest examples of photography helping change the course of history, and proof that it can happen again.
#ILCPCollective #GreatBearRainforest #SpiritBear #SeaWolves #ConservationPhotography
29 Oct 2026
The call to end krill fishing is getting louder. It’s not just campaigners calling on retailers and brands to stop selling krill products. It’s surfers, lawyers, DJs, film directors, photographers, scientists, athletes, artists, oceanographers and most importantly people like you!
Krill are hauled out of fragile Antarctica to make products we don’t need such as krill oil, when sustainable alternatives are already on the shelves.
It’s time for brands like @swisseau & @blackmoresaustralia, and retailers like @chemistwarehouseaus, @bootsuk & @terrywhitechemmart to follow in the footsteps of @hollandandbarrett, @dm_deutschland, @woolworths_au and @colessupermarkets and drop all krill products. Wherever you are, check your local pharmacy or chemist and ask them to stop selling krill oil!
As CCAMLR negotiations take place in Hobart this week, where decisions on Antarctic’s conservation are being made, we urge members to heed this growing global movement of brands and individuals dropping krill products. The message is clear: put conservation first and protect the Southern Ocean.
Humans don’t need krill. Whales, penguins, seals and seabirds do.
27 Oct 2026
“In my lifetime of diving, I have never found richer, thicker, or denser kelp forests than those of the Falkland Islands. I felt as though I was swimming through a rainforest.” Our co-founder @PaulNicklen on one of the last wild frontiers on Earth, home to five species of penguin and a thriving marine ecosystem.
While places that have lived with open-net salmon farms, like British Columbia, are phasing them out, the Falklands are considering introducing this destructive industry into the waters that make the islands so special. Open-net pens release disease, excess nitrogen that smothers kelp, antibiotics linked to resistant bacteria in dolphins, and chemicals that harm crustaceans at the base of the food chain. Preventing damage is easier than fixing damage already dealt, and a place known for being untouched cannot become untouched again.
The Falkland Islands Government has opened a public survey. It mainly seeks Falkland Islanders’ views, but anyone can respond. If you understand the impacts of salmon farms, have your say before October 30 — Link in bio.
Photos by @PaulNicklen and @Mitty
#Falklands #SalmonFarm #FishFarmsOut #Wildlife #Explore
26 Oct 2026
These sharks nearly disappeared from Thailand’s reefs after coral bleaching hit the Andaman Sea in 2010 following decades of overfishing. Now, with a little help, they are finding their way back.
Sirachai “Shin” Arunrugstichai (@shinalodon) is a photojournalist and marine biologist based in Bangkok. He began his career researching sharks in Thailand’s commercial fisheries before moving to documentaries for @NatGeo, @WashingtonPost, and @NYTimes. Shin is a National Geographic Explorer, Vital Impacts Fellow and Associate Fellow of @iLCP_Photographers, and co-founder of the research collective @ThaiSharksAndRays.
Here, Shin documents the Thai chapter of @ReSharkOrg’s StAR program, which expanded to Thailand after early success in Indonesia. Led locally by @WildAidThailand, the effort brings together aquariums, scientists, governments, and conservation partners to breed, rear, and release juveniles into the wild, with each shark fitted with an acoustic tag so researchers can follow its movements and survival. According to the latest monitoring data, several sharks continue to survive in the wild, and some have even been spotted by recreational divers!
While establishing a self-sustaining population will take years of sustained effort, these early observations are an encouraging sign that leopard sharks may become a familiar sight in Thailand’s Andaman Sea once again.
Photos for @wildaidthailand & @oceanbluetree with support from @vital.impacts
Project partners: @resharkorg @aquaria.phuket @maitonisland @dmcrth @thaisharksandrays
24 Oct 2026
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