About this podcast
Saltwater Stories brings the ocean’s mysteries to life, taking curious listeners on journeys through marine biology, coastal and marine ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation. From coral reefs to coastal habitats, we explore fascinating creatures, vital ecosystems, and efforts to protect them. With real science, conservation news, and amazing ocean tales, each episode invites you to discover the magic beneath the waves. Dive in—adventure awaits just below the surface!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 117 episodes
- 🌊 The First Deep Ocean Journey · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 44Imagine being sealed inside a steel ball less than five feet wide, suspended by a single cable thousands of feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Outside your tiny window, the…
- 🌊 The Ocean Is Not Silent · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 43An unusual whale song echoing across the North Pacific. A mysterious, duck-like call in Antarctic waters. The unmistakable crackle of snapping shrimp on a coral reef. The ocean…
- 🐟 Reef Stonefish... The Deadliest Rock on the Reef · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 42In the warm, shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific, a predator waits in plain sight. It doesn't chase its prey. It barely moves. And to the unsuspecting fish swimming overhead, it…
- 🌊 Building an Ocean to Save the Ocean...Georgia Aquarium · 43 min · Season 4 Episode 41Imagine flying a whale shark across the Pacific Ocean, carefully transporting one of the largest fish on Earth to a city hundreds of miles from the sea. It sounds almost…
- ⭐ The Sunflower Sea Star: The Predator That Holds a Kelp Forest Together · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 40Imagine a predator nearly a meter across, moving across the seafloor on thousands of tiny tube feet, surrounded by as many as two dozen arms and powerful enough to influence the…
- 🦭 Leopard Seal... The Predator We Got Wrong · 56 min · Season 3 Episode 39Beneath the shifting ice of the Southern Ocean lives one of Antarctica's most recognizable predators. Powerful, solitary, and armed with formidable jaws, the leopard seal has…
- 🐌 The Giant Horse Conch... A Predator Racing Against Time · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 38Beneath the warm, shallow waters of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, an extraordinary predator moves across the seafloor at a snail’s pace. The giant horse conch is the largest…
- 🪼 24 Eyes, No Brain - The Box Jellyfish · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 37There is something moving through the tangled roots of a coastal mangrove forest. It is watching, steering, hunting, and making decisions in a world of murky water and shifting…
- 🦀 The Giant Beneath Japan · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 36Far beneath the waters of Japan, a creature wider than a car walks slowly across the ocean floor. With armor-covered legs spanning more than twelve feet and a lifespan that may…
- 🐟 The Blobfish Was Never Ugly · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 35The blobfish became famous for a face it was never meant to wear. Pulled from the crushing depths and stripped of the water pressure that supports its body, a perfectly adapted…
- 🐍 Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake... The Snake That Drinks Rain · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 34Imagine spending your entire life at sea, thousands of miles from shore, surrounded by water in every direction, and still being able to die of thirst. The yellow-bellied sea…
- 🦈 Eugenie Clark... The Woman Who Looked Closer · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 33Long before sharks became symbols of fear, a nine-year-old girl stood pressed against the glass of the New York Aquarium and saw something different. Where others saw a monster…
- 🐧 Between Two Impossible Worlds - The Atlantic Puffin · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 32Spend a few minutes with an Atlantic puffin and it is easy to understand why people fall in love with them. The colorful beak. The awkward waddle. The unmistakable face. But that…
- 🥤The Ocean's Invisible Enemy · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 31What if the greatest threat to the ocean isn't something you can see? In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we follow the extraordinary life of a young loggerhead sea turtle from…
- 🦪 This Giant Lives on Sunlight · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 30Discover the incredible true story of the giant clam, one of the ocean's most remarkable and misunderstood animals.What if one of the largest animals on a coral reef didn't hunt…
- 🦈 The Hidden Superpower of Nurse Sharks · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 29Beneath the coral reef, where sunlight fades into shadow, a different kind of predator begins to move. In this episode of Saltwater Stories, we journey into the hidden world of…
- 🦀 The Secret Life of Fiddler Crabs · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 28Most people walk past a mudflat without giving it a second thought. But beneath the surface is one of the busiest and most remarkable communities along the coast. In this episode…
- 🐟 The Fish That Walked Out of the Sea · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 27This week on Saltwater Stories, we meet one of the strangest and most extraordinary animals on Earth. A fish that walks across mud, breathes air beneath the tropical sun, climbs…
- 🌊 The Living Shield Between Land and Sea · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 26At first glance, a salt marsh can look like an empty field of grass and mud. But step closer and an entirely different world comes into focus. In this episode of Saltwater…
- 🤿 The Man Who Gave Humanity Gills · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 25This week on Saltwater Stories, we follow the remarkable journey of Jacques Cousteau, the explorer, inventor, filmmaker, and conservationist who transformed humanity's…
