Going down without getting wet: Making ocean learning easy

Melanie Knight surveys ways to explore the ocean without diving — ROVs, submersibles, underwater labs, live-diver video feeds — and argues ocean literacy matters, citing prochlorococcus’s role in producing much of Earth’s oxygen. She recounts founding the Petty Harbour Mini Aquarium in Newfoundland, Canada’s catch-and-release aquarium model, and describes efforts to spread small community aquariums.

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