A Mariner's Wisdom
This creature was given its name as it was the “right” animal to hunt for its blubber.
What is the right whale?
This shark has the longest and deadliest tail of all sharks.
What is the thresher shark?
The deepest oceanic trench on earth
What is the Mariana Trench?
The main characters of this movie travel the ocean to find 42 Wallaby Way Sydney.
What is Finding Nemo?
This ocean-powered storm is called a Hurricane in the northern hemisphere and this in the southern hemisphere.
What is a cyclone?
Darwin made his voyage to the galapagos on this ship
What is the HMS Beagle?
This animal is thought to have inspired the myth of mermaids
What is the manatee?
This deep-sea fish loses its shape when it is brought to surfaces and resembles a pile of...well, ugly goop
What is the blobfish?
In the Disney film Moana, Moana’s Grandmother Tala says after death that she will come back as this marine organism.
What is a manta ray?
These prehistoric sea turtles are the largest turtles in the ocean
What is the leatherback turtle?
A great white is dining on the right side of your boat. In naval terms, it is this side of your boat
What is Starboard?
A lot of people think a stingray’s tail will sting them, but more specifically, this part of a stingray is actually responsible for the stinging.
What is a barb?
This ocean floor dwelling creature, whose fingertip-sized cousins you can often find in your backyard, serves as a prime example of deep sea gigantism.
What is the Giant Isopod?
In the movie Jaws, the emergence of this fin is how Martin Brody can tell there is a shark in the water.
What is the dorsal fin?
This fish is famous in New England for its historically huge fishing industry which crashed in the 1990’s due to overfishing.
What is the cod?
Named after an ancient species of cephalopod still around today, this was the name of Captain Nemo’s vessel in Jules Verne’s 1870 science fiction novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
What is the Nautilus?
This location is known as the most pirate-infested waters.
What is the Gulf of Aden?
If you find yourself in this location which shares a name with a famous clownfish, you are the farthest distance from land you can possibly be.
What is Point Nemo?
This movie features a ctenophore and an echinoderm who are searching for King Neptune’s crown in order to clear the name of their crustacean friend.
What is The Spongebob Squarepants Movie?
Sharks do not have bones, instead they are made up of...
What is cartilaginous tissue?
This ancient group of people is often credited as being the first true ocean seafarers, sailing between the Pacific islands over 3,000 years ago
Who are the Polynesians?
Old sailors were thought to have mistaken this deep sea fish for sea serpents.
What is the Oarfish?
The biggest horror of all in the deep- HUMANS! Kidding...
This filmmaker is famous for the Challenger expedition.
Who is James Cameron?
This movie is about a dolphin who requires a prosthetic tale in order to help her swim.
What is Dolphin Tale?
This brackish, grassy, coastal marine habitat can be found in mid-high latitudes and serves as a productive and efficient carbon sink.
What is a salt marsh?