🚿(under)water

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke

collection inspired by sharks 🦈

I'm not sure I would've believed that a blue whales heartbeat can be heard from 3km away, until I saw how big they are 🤯

Amy Pearce

We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think

Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel

Amie Pearce • Meet the Thresher Shark

One of the most recent additions to the shark family tree is the genus Hemiscyllium, known as walking sharks. These sharks are still evolving in western New Guinea, providing a rare glimpse of 'evolution in action' as they use their fins to walk’ along the seabed. It would be the stuff of nightmares if they weren’t so small and harmless. For now,... See more

Amie Pearce • The evolution of sharks

What the student needed above all was the chance to learn to think for himself. So he ought to pursue the line of investigation that interested him most, just as, conversely, a professor ought to be perfectly free to devote his own efforts however he chose. One term, a course of twenty-one lectures was offered on sharks alone, a favorite topic of

David McCullough • Brave Companions

Braud and his colleagues demonstrated that human thoughts can affect the direction in which fish swim,

Lynne McTaggart • The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

what?

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Amie Pearce • The power of nature’s sonar

“Sound is the vocabulary of nature”_ Pierre Schaeffer

In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.

Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”