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🌊🤿 Beneath the waves lie entire lost worlds.

Explore Underwater Archaeology — from sunken cities and ancient ports to legendary shipwrecks revealing forgotten civilizations ⚓🏛️

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#UnderwaterArchaeology #OceanHistory #SunkenCities #Shipwrecks
January 24, 2026 at 9:36 PM
🌊 On this day in 2018, a devastating tsunami hit Palu, Indonesia, reminding us that these "harbor waves" remain one of nature's most powerful forces. The sea's memory is long, and its lessons vital for coastal communities worldwide.

#TsunamiAwareness #OceanHistory #DisasterPreparedness
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In 1940, Steinbeck & Ricketts set sail on a beer-stocked voyage aboard the Western Flyer. Their Log from the Sea of Cortez inspired generations of ocean lovers. Now, 85 years later, the Flyer sails again, reborn as a research vessel & floating classroom. #WesternFlyer #OceanHistory
September 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So when Steinbeck needed escape, and Ricketts sought specimens (and maybe proof his philosophy held water) they set sail on the Western Flyer. Two arcs, one battered by fame, the other buoyed by tidepools, converging in the Sea of Cortez. #SeaOfCortez #OceanHistory #WesternFlyer
September 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Who was Ed Ricketts, the man who sailed with Steinbeck in 1940 aboard the Western Flyer? A marine biologist, philosopher, and Monterey eccentric, whose lab on Cannery Row became a hub for science, art, and wild late-night debates. #EdRicketts #CanneryRow #OceanHistory #WesternFlyer
September 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This shift rippled through his later works. Cannery Row imagined communities as “superorganisms.” The Pearl turned a tale he heard in Mexico into a parable of environment and fate. Ricketts’ tidepool philosophy echoed everywhere. #OceanHistory #Ecology #Steinbeck
September 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The voyage birthed Sea of Cortez (later Log from the Sea of Cortez): part travelogue, part catalog, part philosophy. It marked a shift away from pure social protest toward ecology, interconnection, and humility before nature. #OceanHistory #Steinbeck
September 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Enter Ed Ricketts: marine biologist, philosopher, and Steinbeck’s closest friend. Together they boarded the Western Flyer for the Sea of Cortez. On paper: a specimen-collecting trip. In truth: escape, reflection, and experiment. #WesternFlyer #SeaOfCortez #OceanHistory
September 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In 1939, Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath. It won the Pulitzer, and unleashed a storm. The novel didn’t just tell the Joads’ story, it accused California agribusiness of exploitation during the Dust Bowl. #Steinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #OceanHistory
September 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In 1940, John Steinbeck & Ed Ricketts set sail on a beer-fueled voyage aboard the Western Flyer. Their Log from the Sea of Cortez inspired generations of ocean lovers. Now, 85 years later, the Flyer sails again, reborn as a research vessel & floating classroom. #WesternFlyer #OceanHistory
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Two photos. Same location, same tide pools, 85 years between them. What place could hold such history, and still shape how we see the ocean today? The answer surfaces this September at Ocean Hoptimism.
#OceanHoptimism #OceanHistory #WeLoveClues
August 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Early versions of today’s “star species” often looked and lived very differently. Many were short-lived or left few fossils, so they vanish from the record. It makes their modern forms feel older and more inevitable than they really are.
#MarineScience #PushOfThePast #OceanHistory
August 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Max Chervin Bridge's "Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #oceanhistory #sensoryhistory #animalhistory

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990 | Environmental History
Abstract This article brings together a history of more-than-human sensory life across the multitude of underwater environments that shaped knowledge of and concern about the effects of anthropogenic ...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Could Paleolithic people paddle 225 km across the ocean? New experiments show they did. A dugout canoe, stone tools, and ancient strategy reveal bold seafaring long before maps. #Seafaring #Paleolithic #Archaeology #HumanMigration #OceanHistory
How Stone Age Mariners Conquered the Kuroshio
What a hand-carved canoe and an unforgiving ocean tell us about early human seafaring in East Asia
www.anthropology.net
June 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
These Tiny, Beautiful Fossils Detail the History of the Ocean: Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past @SmithsonianMag #Fossils #OceanHistory #Foraminifera #ClimateChange #Paleontology
These Tiny, Beautiful Fossils Detail the History of the Ocean
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past
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June 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Earth's Oceans Were Once Green, Says Study of Volcanic Waters #Science #EarthSciences #Oceanography #OceanHistory #VolcanicWaters #EarthScience
Earth's Oceans Were Once Green, Says Study of Volcanic Waters
Could they change colour again?
purescience.news
April 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Deadline extended to Oct 15th for proposals for the special issue of Mainsheet on challenges in the study of maritime archaeology! Please spread the word to #oceanhistory, #bluehumanities, etc.! Here's some info: www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/post/2624-de...
Deadline Extension for CFP: Challenges in Maritime Archaeology | Published by MAINSHEET
Submissions are now due October 15, 2024 for our issue on challenges in the field of maritime archaeology.
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August 8, 2024 at 6:21 PM