Under the Sea
An animal who uses echolocation.
What is a dolphin?
The murder admiral.
Who is Columbus?
An animal, dubbed "mother of the year" for brooding her eggs for four-and-a-half years.
What is an octopus?
A large accumulation of ocean plastic located between Hawaii and California in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
The Danish author who published "The Little Mermaid" in 1837.
Who is Hans Christian Andersen?
An author, best known for drawing attention to the effects of DDT on the environment and human health, who writes about what an "undersea traveler" would encounter in the ocean.
Who is Rachel Carson?
The world's largest international maritime warfare exercise.
What is RIMPAC?
An animal, often harvested for its spermaceti, or liquid wax used as oil; also, the second sons by day.
What is a sperm whale?
A bird who lives on Midway Atoll and was photographed with plastic in its stomach.
What is an albatross?
The island, shaped like a lizard, where Aycayia is originally from.
What is Cuba?
The production and emission of light by a living organism, such as many deep-sea creatures.
What is bioluminescence?
A small, flat-bottomed boat used for fishing; David's is called Simplicity.
What is a pirogue?
An animal that would follow in the wake of slave ships.
What is a shark?
A plastic bath toy, 28,800 of which were released from a container ship into the sea.
What is a rubber duck?
A name, which also appears in The Mermaid of Black Conch, that is used to refer to mermaids in the Caribbean.
What is Mami Wata?
The species featured in My Octopus Teacher.
What is a common octopus?
An island nation, home to poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, that is threatened by rising seas and the aftermath of nuclear testing.
What is the Marshall Islands?
An animal that covers itself in a gelatinous spit sack.
What is a parrotfish?
A Pangcah woman, the owner of the Seventh Sisid, who watches the plastic island approach from the Lighthouse.
Who is Hafay?
Someone who studies mermaids.
Who is a mermaidologist?
A non-Euclidean geometry that replaces Euclid's parallel postulate with a rule allowing multiple parallel lines through a single point, demonstrated by the crochet coral reef project.
A concept that seeks to address the fact that communities of color and poor communities remain most disastrously affected by pollution, overfishing, human rights abuses, loss of coastal ecosystems, storms strengthened by climate change, and sea-level rise.
What is ocean justice?
A whales species, 337 of which were beached in 2015 in Chile in the largest-ever recorded mass stranding and mortality event.
What is a sei whale?
Atile'i's name for the trash island.
What is Gesi Gesi?
The old woman who was cursed alongside Aycayia and transformed into a leatherback sea turtle.
Who is Guanayoa?