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the ocean provides a home to over 200,000 species of animals and as many as 2 million more that have not yet been discovered.

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In my opinion, the ocean is a fascinating, unexplored place.
When I swim, I always try to reach the bottom and then look up to see all this water around me.

It makes me feel calm, happy and it's a good place to keep my minds away of any kind of problem that can annoy me.

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i have always found the ocean so much prettier and lively than the land. with the range of colours from scarlet reds to neon yellow and pink. the coral reefs have always been my favourite as it is like the underwater city with fish travelling to and from and the protection from larger predators.

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Ocean is a mirror I can see myself throw it 

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Ocean is a mirror I can see myself throw it 

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When I’m at the ocean, I see myself in the best possible light. I can see beyond my own fears and insecurities because the pull of the sea is such that I have no choice but to be brave and happy.

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I find the ocean mysterious yet amazing at the same time/

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I grew up near the coast in Norfolk, England and this is where my love of the sea began. The ocean is mysterious and awesome, brimming with life, adventure and the unknown. It is full of endless possibilities...

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The ocean is full of many beautiful things but what about all of the things that go undiscovered? For all we know, an animal that we think has gone extinct could still be alive at depths we have not been to yet. There may be things at the bottom that could change history. That is why it is so beautiful. Anything could be possible down there. The way life works in the ocean is truly something else.

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I've always loved the ocean. The moment when you go on holiday and get to go in the beautiful, clear blue water and see all the fish swimming around your feet. However, there's also so much which is undiscovered and it's incredible to imagine how many species we're unaware of and what may still be out there. That's why it's so important to do what it takes to protect the ocean and everything within it as it has a huge impact on all of our lives.

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The mysteriousness of the ocean is what makes it so fascinating. So much of it is undiscovered as it covers the largest area over anything else in the entire world. It possesses so much power and beauty that humans couldn't begin to even imagine, and it controls every aspect of our existence. We are entirely dependent on the ocean, from the regulation of our world's climate to the medicinal opportunities it gives us. This is what fuels my passion and intrigue for it, and why it enchants me. I believe in the importance of protecting and conserving our ocean as it provides us with so much that is essential to us. The current state that our ocean is in is devastating and if we continue to damage it, humanity may never be the same again. We must learn to live in a state of harmony with our ocean to ensure the future for it and us remains bright.

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The ocean gives me a multitude of feelings, from excitement to fear. I have always felt in awe in front of it as it offers this other world of which we have only explored and been able to research 5-10% of. The ocean is something we should cherish as it provides over 50% of our world's oxygen, regulates our climate and weather patters as well as being the habitat for over 700,000 marine species. Realise it or not, it plays a large part in all our lives and I hope in the future we are able to discover more of it and ways to use its resources without hurting the marine life it boasts.

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My fascination towards ocean did not start from my childhood like it did for most of them. Also, I am not a person who happens to live near a shore or anything . My interest towards marine biology started just when I was 14. When I look at the calming ocean waves it makes me ponder how is it that the wave rushing towards the shore goes back smoothly without causing any damage to the shore. The so called Blue Planet is mostly made up of water so how much time would it take for the ocean to sweep through the land with water and why is everything always in control. This made me realize the wonderful hints that God has left us with to understand him. The Ocean indeed is a precious gift from him and we must take care of it in the best way we can to conserve it. More than that there is something that makes me want to learn it. The species found in the depths of the Ocean are way beyond of what we could imagine. We certainly don't understand how much the ocean is connected to our daily lives but we have to. That's the reason I took the course in the first place and I am hoping to learn more from it.

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The ocean has always been a place that I have held great interest for. I have always wanted to learn more about it and the creatures that exist there. This is the image that really kickstarted my love for the ocean because it made me think of all of the possible things that could be existing that we don't know of.

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The Ocean is a beautiful place. We are lucky to have it and the life that it contains. We should be proud to have it in our world and it is a wonder that we have the responsibility to protect.

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Whether underwater or on land, all life on this planet stems from our oceans and our existence is dependant on these ecosystems. Just as coral and algae live in a harmonious symbiotic relationship, so must we learn to harmonious co-exist with our marine life.

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I have love the ocean ever since I can remember. As a child it was a place of holidays and fun.  As a grown up, a place of peace ... the ocean brings peace and joy to my soul despite the challenges of everyday life.

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Since I was little, I have always felt connected to the ocean. It is a place where I feel I can truly be myself with out the feeling of being rushed to conform to expectations that are put onto me. The ocean provides so much for the world with a sense of "Agape", a feeling of unconditional love. As the world has started to move on without the ocean, into a more technological era, it feels as though this sense of appreciation for the ocean is fading as well. In this image, although not a popular sea creature, the siphonophore, to me, represents the way humans are naturally interconnected with the ocean and why we must continue to learn about it and protect the beautiful ever-evolving life within it.

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I've always been fascinated by our vast oceans and felt as if it was calling to me. I feel calm and at peace when I'm in the water and the more I learn about our magical underwater ecosystems the more I understand how important it is to protect and preserve it. Sharks very quickly became my favourite animals and I am always in awe of these beautiful creatures and the way they have evolved. This photo was taken by a good friend of mine while on a volunteer trip to South Africa on a shark tour and research boat. Since this trip I have become even more passionate about sharks and our oceans and want to learn all I can about conservation and how to protect our oceans.

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It transmits me a sense of calmness and spaciouness like nothing else on earth, as well as respect when it gets rough. Beautiful, colourful, diverse, origin of complex organisms (us) and holder of huge biodiversity. A source of wellbeing and inspiration for all of us. It mantains important balance of earth's processes. It is our duty to protect it. I am currently living far away from it and waiting with impatience the day I will move by its side and will be able to expolre it and protect it every day!

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For me the ocean is a washing machine, it can be calm and peaceful or humbling and powerful. A mix of wonders and curiosity's, predator and prey, the perfect balance and my favourite place on earth.

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For me the ocean is a home. Home which I will never get to know fully. It brings all diverse feelings, same as our oceans are their self. It calms me down to look at it and smell the air and it exiting me with the big dangerous waves when on board or strong currents during diving. I smile and want to protect a little creatures swimming by and I adore the sharks or whales with big respect.  I am guessing,…. what they think of me?    …or us humans?  I live on the sea. I love the sea. I care about the sea. I want to know more about the sea. I want to protect the sea.

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Looking at the sunset in the ocean we can see a pure elegance.

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I live in Brazil and this place calls Fernando de Noronha ... a wonderful place to visit and dive.

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I live in the middle of the US but have become enamored with the depths of the ocean.  Each particular environment is so gorgeous and teeming with life, but at the same time so fragile. Susceptible to the weather and humans need to see and touch. I'm embarking on a journey to become a marine conservationist to learn to preserve the beauty.

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One reason why i love the ocean is because it is such a peaceful as well as a beautiful environment to be surrounded by. I for one love watching the sun set on the sea!

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I feel peace tranquility admire how beautiful our world is. When diving I feel peace and in sync with life just floating and feeling and looking at our beautiful universe

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The ocean has always fascinated me and so many people around the world through History. Often depicted as a powerful god/goddess which can be very destructive like Poseidon and Iemanja, who is also seductive and motherly.
I certainly perceive it as powerful and mysterious, almost mystical!

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The ocean invites, challenges me and takes me to faraway places.
Sailing, canoeing, surfing - they are all a wonderful experience.  But far far deeper lies an underworld full of mystery, power and scary things!
Here in Western Scotland is Caerlaverock, at sunset.

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To me, the ocean has always been mysterious and dangerous. This isn't helped by all the documentaries that show the dangers of the ocean.

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Since I was young, I always find the ocean mystical but captivating. I moved to live near the ocean after I have grown up. Whenever I have free time I always go strolling along the beach. I want to learn more what the ocean can provide and discover something new.

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To me the ocean is home to such an array of diverse creatures and ‘plant life’ - there are so many of beautiful habitats. Sometimes, when. I look at the ocean i am amazed at how so much life is hidden from our view.

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Ocean has infinity stories and facts that are related to each other. It is mysterious and the finding goes on. From shore it gives view of endless sea with restless waves

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To me the ocean is vast, magnificent and inspires in me a sense of calm and belonging. At the same time it can be a destructive force and must be respected. There are a lot of things we still don't know about the ocean and that mystery is exciting and thrilling. I find that even though vast areas of it are essentially desserts, there are a lot of fascinating biodiversity and unique ecosystems. Marine biology is truly my vocation.

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sometimes seeing sea makes me feel comfortable because it is very calm, but when u remember all scary things inside the sea, you know that its not that preety inside.

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I find the ocean captivating. I have been lucky enough to grow up relatively close to the sea and surfing is a huge part of my life. The ocean provides me with a variety of feelings and provokes many thoughts. not only is it a playground and a place of rest but the ocean is also the 'beating heart' of the planet. There is a delicate equilibrium which humans consistently test and push. if the equilibrium fails, the oceans will die which will result in the death of all life. For this reason i believe that studying the ocean is the key to combating climate change. Furthermore, the ocean holds so many unknowns! i would love to research the lifeforms under the sea and explore the 'alien' worlds of the deep.

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I find the ocean beautiful and terrifying. It can be so powerful and yet so tranquil. I can marvel at it, bathe in it, ride upon it and yet never really know it's deep mysteries and surprises.

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It's as varied as the land masses!

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Calm, belonging. Where the modern world can largely fade into the background, and cement you firmly in the present and in life. I grow restless without it.

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It seems for many of us the ocean simply becomes home. Somehow, despite being immensely vast, unknown, and so deep that makes us being aware of how alive we are, the ocean with all its history, its mythology, its beautiful and whimsical blue and green shades, the tides, the unknown creatures that become eerie as sunlight make them unrecognizable to our perception, despite that feeling of being defenceless by all what we ignore about it, the ocean seems the key to know more about our origin, existence, and so on. Paradoxically, to me, ocean was where to be when I needed more oxygen to breath and make conflict lighter. But also, that line between what I know and what I  cannot know/see. That balance between being brave and dare to swim to a remote Greek myth, or to stay in the shore bored wanting to swim and discover what there is beyond the deep.

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the ocean has always been something that I find absolutely incredible, fascinating and beautiful.

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I'm a liveaboard sailor, so the ocean is my home. It shapes my physical and mental health, where I travel, how warm my boat is and what I eat. But I can also see first-hand how fragile it can be. Good stewardship must first start with good understanding.

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The ocean provides me with a sense of serenity. When I'm stressed or feel down I know that going for a swim or swim with always calm me. The ocean is vast and full of mystery, I want to learn as much as I can about it and one day work in the field as a marine scientist.

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i was born and live in indonesia, it's a country that have been known for having a thousand of island and the famous one is bali. Indonesia have a lot of beautiful sea because its located between two ocean, pacific and indian. as an indonesian, i feel like i have to know more about ocean and what's inside of it. i always curious about it and my curiousity also bring me to start diving and become a professional. now, i want to learn more about ocean in science perspective.

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The ocean covers 3/4th of the whole Earth.But we have explored only less than the half.It has number of plant and animal species in it.The ocean is always a home of an enormous species.The most beauriful and unexplored part of the Earth.Exploring Ocean is always fascinating.I Love Ocean!

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Red-breasted Merganser and surf....
The sea means nature - power - life. It appeals variously to the romantic, the aesthetic, the spiritual and the scientific bits of my brain. I moved house five years ago to be near it, and it's the best decision I ever made.

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The ocean is a place for constant discovery. It is rich in life from the surface all the way to the seabed.
I love how it not only calms me but also excites me in a way that spires me to learn more and do my part.
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The ocean is very big, wet and scary. It can be very peaceful, calming and beautiful but can also be full of rage and fury. We need to learn more about it and treat it with respect.

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I have never lived near the ocean , but I've been drawn to it my whole life and I'm planning to move to the coast in the next year or two. The ocean is paradoxical in many ways - although it's calming, it never stops moving. Although it's beautiful, it's a hostile habitat for most of its inhabitants, every day being a fight for survival against predators and human plunder. It's powerful and pitiless, but essential to the survival of the planet.

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I have never lived far from the sea whatever country I live in. It has always calmed and inspired me, still at its edge listening to the waves and the difference in sound as the tide and weather changes. It is awe inspiring in all its mantles.

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Like the infamous images of how much larger an iceberg is beneath the water than on top, I find the idea of how much diverse life the ocean holds and the fact we are still discovering new parts of it incredible.

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I live in Delhi..but some years ago ,our family visited Goa..there we use to chill on beeches..then I saw deep oceans there..for me it was heart full experience..oceans for me is like the other source of colourful life, lots of live beneath it..there deepness and density are not horrible..but these are bueatiful and say something and inspire us to live more happily after have lots of sorrows deep inside us..as same like these endless oceans

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mystery, relaxing, life, beauty, dark blue, silence, greatness, extraordinary, interesting 

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mystery, relaxing, life, beauty, dark blue, silence, greatness, extraordinary, interesting 

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I live in Pondicherry ,India. A coastal region.  From childhood i use to take the beach road to my school because i like the sea breeze. Even the road i use to take to my college has sea view which is extremely mesmerizing to watch. through out all four seasons of the year  the ocean give different  experience to me. Whenever the  cyclone hits our coast there will be a heavy rain fall and high tides and wind   but  the very next day  the ocean  appear so clam and beautiful. I feel like oceans alive and always trying to say something about life .

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I have been drawn to the ocean for my entire life. I have been drawn to the ocean for life.

When my toes touch the sand I am a child. As I gaze seaward from the beach I want to swim as far as I can see. When I scuba dive I feel I have arrived at my true home. The first time I saw a shark it stirred something deep inside. I am so upset with the wholesale slaughter of these wonderful, beautiful, important creatures and must find my way of helping to save them.

How can I be a good steward? What can I do to help ensure my children and their children's children are able to experience their true home?

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All this is a result of plate tectonics. Subduction of an ocean plate under a land plate produces rapid elevation and the most diverse county in the US. The ocean controls our ecology and dictates our weather.

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Every time I hear something new about the sea, the creatures and processes in it, I can't get out of my amazement.
No matter how strange or frightening it may be, in every smallest detail lies a beauty that is hard to put into words.
I am simply fascinated and want to learn more about the great dark measures of salt water.

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The ocean to me, means what wonders that live under the waves at the very bottom. Like this Hatchet fish in the Twilight zone because of its crazy features, like it’s giant eyes. I like the darker parts of the ocean because of how much we don’t know about this part of our planet.

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Oceans are fascinating and support huge amounts of life... but what additional life can the ocean support that we have yet to discover? Do they include mythological creatures like mermaids or prehistoric species like megalodons, or is life down there much simpler and closer to home?

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the ocean is a piece of art that is unimaginable, unlimited, and unpredictable. it has endless possibilities and is a very precious and tender living thing that must be protected.

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The ocean is a secret world that takes dedication to truly discover. Its secrets feel infinite and there's always more to discover

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I live on a island , so I grow up close to the sea , for me mean freedom , connection with the nature. This photo was taken during my windsurf course

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Seeing as most oxygen that the world has, comes from the ocean due to algae, I would say that the ocean means life (in the least cheesiest way possible). Without the ocean there probably wouldn't be much life, above or below the water.

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Ocean for me is life, is breath, is what makes our planet so beautiful. It's a connection with the underwater world and with perfect balanced life. we need to protect our oceans if we want to survive

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Symbolic of the ocean-based cultures I met on a recent holiday, I have just made this design a permanent part of my life.

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The deep darkness, that’s the mystery of the ocean

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Wonderful, a world of its own.

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The ocean is my surroundings acting a place of pure joy for me and a livelihood for many. It is a mystery, powerful and a force to be reckoned with but it is also a sanctuary and a world of peace!

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infinite,immense,unknown, deep and dark.

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The ocean and the sea for me is calm, it brings me a relaxation feelings, it's inspiring

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To me the ocean is a place full of life, with a huge range of habitats, organisms and power. Something to be awed and respected, but also enjoyed if treated properly.

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I have always lived near the ocean, it`s very important to me as I have always felt connected to it.

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For me, it's about finding out more about the deep oceans and what may lie beneath.

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There are no edges only an entire embracing of the Blue Planet. To be cherished.

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an abundance of life that we have yet to discover and areas to explore

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A whole new world filled with possibilities and secrets that we have yet to discover.

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a whole world