Guides to the world’s kelp coastlines — the Great Southern Reef, Monterey Bay, Hokkaido, Norway, Patagonia — their ecology, seasons and stories.
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A coastal atlas guide to Browns Bank, the Scotian Shelf plateau where kelp grows far offshore, urchins regrew and crashed, and science has watched for fifty years.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Ferry to Bruny Island for d'Entrecasteaux Channel kelp forests, sea-cliff wildlife cruises, white wallabies and Tasmania's foodiest postcode.
Tom Okafor ·
Off the Sahara's shoulder, the Canary Islands grow seaweed forests in upwelled water — until heatwaves and sea urchins turn them. An atlas of kelp's southern edge.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Cape Ann, north of Boston, is old granite meeting cold Atlantic water — sugar kelp ledges, famous shore dives and a coast living at kelp's warming edge.
Tom Okafor ·
Cape Arago's sandstone reefs hold Oregon's best tidepools, a sea lion haulout, and bull kelp gardens shaped by wild storms. A coastal atlas guide.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Carmel Bay pairs giant kelp with some of California's oldest marine protection. Explore its reefs, Stillwater Cove and what decades of sanctuary bought.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney: Europe's wildest tidal range, the ormer fishery, the ancient vraic harvest and Britain's southernmost — and warmest — kelp reefs.
Tom Okafor ·
800 km east of New Zealand, the Chatham Islands sit in the Roaring Forties: southern bull kelp, rock lobster, Moriori heritage and the Chatham Rise.
Tom Okafor ·
Inside Chile's Patagonian channels, the Andes go under the sea — and sheltered waters grow the most extensive giant kelp forests in South America, beside a salmon boom.
Jack Callum ·
Chiloé's inland sea holds giant kelp, cochayuyo coasts, blue whales and one of the world's great salmon industries. A guide to Chile's complicated island.
Naomi Reyes ·
Chile's Chonos Archipelago is a drowned maze of rainforest islands, kelp channels, mussel rafts and blue-whale water — a coastal atlas guide to Aysén's inland sea.
Tom Okafor ·
Fjords, surf beaches and kelp forests in one of Canada's most storied sounds — marine life, Nuu-chah-nulth stewardship and a famous conservation history.
Jack Callum ·
Between Kamchatka and the Aleutians, two fog-bound islands hold rich kelp forests, sea otters — and the grave of the ocean's most famous extinction.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A region guide to Chile's Bay of Concepción — Humboldt Current kelp beds, cochayuyo harvest, artisanal fishing caletas, and where nature persists beside industry.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Between New Zealand's two islands, ferocious tides mix subtropical and subantarctic water into kelp reefs of rare variety — Wellington to the Marlborough Sounds.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Cornwall's kelp forests shelter jewel anemones, seals and centuries of Celtic sea history. A regional guide to the coast's reefs and wildlife.
Tom Okafor ·
A Coastal Atlas guide to the Coromandel Peninsula — golden kelp reefs, the Cathedral Cove marine reserve, kina barren science, offshore islands, visibility seasons and access.
Tom Okafor ·
A coastal atlas guide to Corsica — Cystoseira canopy forests, vast Posidonia meadows, and the Mediterranean's only true kelp in deep water off the island of granite.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Croatia's island-chained coast grows the Mediterranean's great brown algal canopies on drowned karst — clear water, coralligenous reefs and forests now measured in fragments.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
At the Cape of Good Hope, cold Atlantic upwelling and False Bay warmth build towering kelp. A practical dive guide to Cape Point's sites, seasons and permits.
Tom Okafor ·
Deception Pass is Washington's most current-swept dive. How to time the slack, where to enter, and what lives on this bull kelp corridor between islands.
Tom Okafor ·
Loch Carron hides maerl beds, flame shells and kelp-fringed narrows. A practical Scottish sea-loch dive guide: sites, seasons, slack water and wildlife.
Tom Okafor ·
Beneath Milford Sound's dark freshwater layer lies a shallow reef of black corals and kelp. How to dive Piopiotahi: operators, seasons, gear and the signature sites.
Tom Okafor ·
Point Lobos limits divers to a handful of reserved buddy teams a day. How to get a slot, dive Whalers Cove's kelp, and respect California's oldest rules.
Tom Okafor ·