One screen, eleven orders of magnitude. Watch the scale climb — or drag it yourself.
The chemistry that makes life possible.
A single-page tour of the ocean's living hierarchy. Watch the layers swim by.
Water (H₂O), dissolved O₂, CO₂, nitrogen & phosphorus — the chemistry that makes life possible.
Bacteria & archaea recycle nutrients. They make up most of the ocean's living biomass.
Diatoms & algae photosynthesize — the base of the food web. They make ~50% of Earth's O₂.
Copepods, krill & larvae eat phytoplankton. They are the great middle link of the ocean.
Jellyfish drift with the currents. Shrimp and snails graze the seafloor.
Sardines, anchovies, herring. They feed on zooplankton and feed everything bigger.
Tuna, mackerel, mahi-mahi. Fast, warm-blooded hunters chasing the schools.
Sharks, swordfish, orcas. Few enemies. Their presence keeps every layer below in balance.
The blue whale — bigger than any dinosaur — filters tons of krill daily. The pinnacle of the food web.
Coral reefs, kelp forests, open ocean & deep sea — every level above coexists in balance. Lose one, the rest wobbles.
Three deeper tours — restoration on land, at sea, and twenty meters underwater.
🌊 MARINE RESTORATION → 🏞 FRESHWATER RESTORATION → 🤿 SCIENTIFIC DIVING →Sunlight + molecules feed phytoplankton → zooplankton graze them → small fish eat zooplankton → larger fish eat them → apex predators hunt those → and great whales filter or hunt their way through it all. When any layer crashes (overfishing, pollution, warming) the whole column above wobbles. That's why aquatic ecology studies every scale at once — from H₂O to humpback.
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