National Geographic's Ocean Now is a project to study the last healthy, undisturbed places in the ocean. Follow along as Dr. Enric Sala and the a team of scientists as they explore the pristine waters of their most recent destination: Cocos Island.
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Fresh from her dives at Cocos and Las Gemelas, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle appears tonight with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, where she’ll discuss her new book, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One. ...
Fresh from her dives at Cocos and Las Gemelas, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle appears tonight with Stephen Colbert on Colbert Nation, where she’ll discuss her new book, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One. ...
The last three days, we have witnessed firsthand what’s killing the oceans. It was like waking up from the most wonderful dream to the crudest reality. We spent two weeks experiencing nature at its best in Cocos Island National Park. ...
At the Wafer Bay ranger station on Cocos Island, defenders of the park’s protected waters—including staff and volunteers with Costa Rica’s national park service (ACMIC), the Costa Rican Coast Guard, MarViva, and PRETOMA—fight an uphill battle to safeguard marine life from rampant illegal fishing...
We have returned to mainland Costa Rica, after three amazing weeks at Cocos Island and Las Gemelas seamounts. What have we learned? We learned that Cocos National Park has the largest biomass of predators measured to date on Pacific tropical marine ecosystems...
The team shares photographs from a hike through Cocos Island’s rain forest, from Wafer Bay to Genio Falls, then up and over a ridge to Chatham Bay.
The night belongs to whitetip reef sharks, which sleep by day but patrol the seafloor after dark near Cocos Island.
With the DeepSee submersible, Enric Sala, Sylvia Earle, Jorge Cortés, and other expedition scientists probe depths beyond the reach of scuba divers at Cocos Island and Las Gemelas seamounts.
Twenty years ago, I was fishing tuna out here near Cocos Island in a small Costa Rican boat. There were a lot of fish for the fishermen back then. There weren’t many people coming here—only five or six fishing boats, small-liners to fish tuna. Really small. Pe...
PRETOMA works with turtles. Four years ago, we started tagging turtles at Cocos and the tiny islands nearby to see if they stayed around or just passed by. We found out that, most of the time, they stay around the island—they’re residents here. ...
