Ocean
A living interface to the ocean

Ocean

Don't browse the ocean. Explore it. This begins in one tidal creek in South Carolina, where a hydrophone will listen for the dolphins that pass a family pier. Everything else grows from there.

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Ocean Node 01
Simulation
Listening now

Bohicket Creek, near Rockville. Live spectrogram to 125 kHz, a human-audible preview, and every known or detected sound with its provenance.

last heartbeat just now
The descent, coming next
  1. 0 m
    Surface
    light, weather, boats, birds
  2. 200 m
    Twilight
    the last of the sun
  3. 1,000 m
    Midnight
    animals make their own light
  4. 4,000 m
    Abyss
    cold, slow, enormous
  5. 6,000 m+
    Hadal
    trenches, almost unvisited

Creatures, expeditions, real sightings and the archivist are not built yet. Nothing here pretends otherwise.