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The Vitamin Sea Project in action! In this episode, join Cal, Lorna and Seaful's wonderful community of volunteers and organisations on a day trip to Lundy island for one of our flagship Vitamin Sea Project activities - snorkelling in the Marine Protected Area, with Young Carers from around Devon!

Lundy is home to a population of very inquisitive grey seals, who have their pups on the protected shores each autumn.

Learn more about Lundy in our short film here: https://youtu.be/A6tYCGazFsA?si=FWcvoWLu8sBTr_pP

There's a short film of one of our Vitamin Sea Project trips to the island here: https://youtu.be/hLIg3GIbXF4?si=0FlCvCIT1rfKgQ02

And a blog here! https://seaful.org.uk/vitamin-sea-project-2026-lundy-diving/

Check out our article in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/13/young-carers-lundy-breathing-space-boat-trip-snorkelling

Huge thanks to everyone who made this day such a success, in particular Devon Young Carers, Lundy Diving, Easy Divers and dryrobe.

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Greencliff Farm is a rewilding haven, a connection between land and sea within the North Devon Biosphere, and bordering the dramatic South West Coast Path. This episode, based on land, might seem a little different to some of our ocean-based stories, but there is so much parallel and connection between the work being done to restore nature and biodiversity here, and that in the ocean, and our wider connection to our home planet.

It is our pleasure to share the beautiful experience of wandering through the farm and its wildlife with you, and we hope you enjoy the journey.

This episode was recorded in April 2026, when we brought together some of our lead volunteers from around the UK for our first ever volunteer gathering at Greencliff Farm, who very kindly donated their holiday accommodation to us for the weekend.

For more information about Greencliff Farm, head to https://greenclifflife.com/

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For many reasons, it's not always possible to go snorkelling in the sea. But there is a really easy and accessible way to connect with nature wherever you are and whatever your age or physical ability.

Land Snorkelling is a mindful movement practice, and our wonderful volunteers Kat Lewis and Steph Jackson have developed a programme for Seaful so that we can connect even more people with nature and each other, whatever the weather! We hope that this episode inspires you to give it a go too!

This episode was recorded in April 2026 in North Devon, during Seaful's first ever volunteer gathering, and you'll hear from several of our Vitamin Sea Project volunteers in this episode. Do check out our last episode too about our phenomenal volunteers!

You don't need anything specific to go Land Snorkelling, but there are some helpful resources on our website, including a short How-To video, and some downloadable Bingo Cards which can be a fun addition to the activity!

https://seaful.org.uk/the-vitamin-sea-project/

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Released during Volunteer Week, it is our great pleasure and honour to introduce you to some of Seaful's incredible volunteers.

In this episode, we share their stories and their reasons for volunteering with Seaful - the UK charity dedicated to connecting people with our ocean, and the organisation behind the Our Ocean Podcast.

You might not realise that one of Seaful's main activities is the Vitamin Sea Project - mindful and transformative experiences of the ocean and waterways such as paddleboarding, snorkelling and rockpooling, and our amazing volunteers are integral to running these projects, embedded within communities.

This April, we brought together some of our lead volunteers from around the UK for our first ever volunteer gathering at Greencliff Farm in North Devon. This episode was recorded during that weekend.

If you're interested in volunteering with Seaful, you can get in touch or complete our volunteer form here: https://seaful.org.uk/contact/

For more information about Land Snorkelling, including a helpful video, head to our website here: https://seaful.org.uk/introducing-land-snorkeling-our-latest-vitamin-sea-activity/

Stay tuned - our next episode will be all about Land Snorkelling!

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This episode is a true immersion into a seabird city! Last summer, Our Ocean's host Cal Major had the rare opportunity to land on Bass Rock, a towering island just off the coast of North Berwick, Scotland, which is home to one of the world's largest colonies of Northern Gannets.

Surrounded by a hundred thousand of these graceful yet formidable birds, Emily Burton and Jess Thompson from the Scottish Seabird Centre describe the behaviours and adaptations of the UK's largest seabird, alongside the threats they face and the enormous impact that avian flu had on the colony's population.

To learn more about the Scottish Seabird Centre, how you can visit Bass Rock and how you can help seabirds, please visit their website here.

Here are some links to specific projects we cover in the episode:

Bass Rock Colony Counts: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/bass-rock-colony-counts

SOS Puffin: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/sos-puffin

Island Biosecurity: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/island-biosecurity

Bass Rock Breeding Success: https://www.seabird.org/conservation/bass-rock-breeding-success

This episode was recorded by Cal Major and edited by Adventurous Audio.

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Mollie Hughes is a world-record adventurer who has summited Everest twice and skied solo to the South Pole, all of which she writes about in her brilliant book, Breathe.

Mollie then returned to her original love - the ocean - to write Blue Scotland - a guide to ocean adventures in the country she is delighted to call home.

In this episode, we dip into the mindset and resilience required of Mollie's extreme expeditions, but also talk about having fun in the sea. Having been coasteering together with Mollie's company, Ocean Vertical, Cal and Mollie discuss the joy of just playing in the water, and how that can create deep connections and opportunities for education and ocean citizenship.

Huge thanks to Mollie for sharing her wisdom and joy, and to Ocean Vertical for opening up a new form of ocean exploration to us in Coasteering!

You can learn more about Mollie through her website, Instagram and Facebook!

You can find her books here:

Breathe

Blue Scotland

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What is a 'Just Transition'? It's a term that gets banded about a lot when talking about protecting areas of the ocean from certain types of destructive fishing. In fact, one of the demands of the Our Seas coalition, who we heard from in last week's episode, is 'The return of a modern seaward limit on bottom-towed fishing, via a just transition'.

Although the science shows that protecting our ocean, in particular fragile habitats, from overexploitation is essential for the recovery of fish stocks, and by extension to support local fishing fleets, there may well be people who fish in those areas currently who are displaced. How can transitioning to a better future for our seas be done in a way that is fair, who has the right to have a say, and what does the 'equitable use of our seas' actually mean.

We're delighted to be joined by Blue Marine Foundation's Joe Richards, to guide us through this nuanced subject with empathy and insight.

You can learn more about the Our Seas coalition, and sign the petition, here:

Our Seas need your help - ask your politician to protect at least 30%

Huge thanks to Highlands and Islands Environment Foundation for supporting this series.

The Our Ocean podcast is brought to you by Seaful, the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to our ocean. To donate, please visit our website.

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This episode is full of hope. 165 organisations and over 15,000 people stand together in Scotland for better protection of its inshore waters from the most damaging forms of fishing.

These people are from different backgrounds, sectors and walks of life, but they are all demanding the same thing from the Scottish government, in the name of a thriving ocean.

This is the Our Seas coalition, of which Seaful is a member. We are delighted to share the stories of several other members from an event in Holyrood, Scottish parliament, in June 2025. We'll hear from fishermen, NGOs, community groups, businesses, MSPs and children as to why this matters to them.

To learn more about the Our Seas coalition, head to https://www.ourseas.scot/

Add your voice here to the call to protect at least 30% of Scotland's inshore seabed, the fragile cradle of life for our ocean.

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Wayne Peters is a self proclaimed 'Mad Scientist of Electric Boats', and his passion for creating cleaner sailing, in consideration and harmony with the very ocean which brings him so much joy, is both inspiring and infectious.

It was a pleasure to chat with Wayne on a sunny beach in North Devon in September 2025, to reminisce about an incredible challenge he took undertook to race the first electric boat in the infamous Fastnet race.

Wayne takes us on a journey through his beautiful, connecting ocean adventures, and we hope you're as inspired to experience and protect our ocean as we are after listening to our his stories.

More information about For One Ocean - an Adventure Sailing Team here.

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Youth Advocacy - what, why, when, where and how? This episode dives deep into young voices, and the positive impact, in sometimes surprising ways, that this supportive organisation, Young Sea Changers Scotland, is having both on marine policy, and on the young people involved.

What a pleasure to speak to Alan Munro, Issy Jeffrey and Louis Macmillan - to hear about their journeys into giving a voice to our ocean, and you might be pleased to hear that this doesn't just belong in parliament buildings or involve writing to elected representatives!

Here are the links to some of the things we mentioned:

Youth Manifesto For Scotland's Seas

Youth Ocean Action Fund

Scottish Elections Youth Climate Hustings

Marine Policy Jargon Buster(and other resources)

Our Seas need your help - ask your politician to protect at least 30%

The Our Ocean podcast is brought to you by Seaful, the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to our ocean. To donate, please visit our website.

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This is a special episode in the run up to the Scottish Government elections in May 2026, however, it retains relevance for any UK elections, and for engaging with politicians in general. This is one of the most crucial and effective ways to be an Ocean Citizen, and we're really grateful for the knowledge and insight from Rea Cris, Public Affairs Manager for the charity Open Seas.

Rea passionately describes to us how democracy should really be a two way street, and how we can recover some of those conversations to influence what our elected representatives, and candidates who want to be our elected representatives, actually do for us when in office.

We cover how to convey what matters to you to political candidates, Hustings, how the juicy bits of elections really start months before the ballot boxes, and some novel ways of engaging with MPs and MSPs (Members of Scottish Parliament).

Here's a handy website where you can put in your postcode, and it brings up who your political candidates are and how to get in touch with them!

https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/

You can sign the Our Seas petition here: https://www.ourseas.scot/

Mentioned in the podcast are Seawilding - restoring seagrass in Scotland

Thanks to Orla from the Ullapool Sea Savers for her excellent Seagrass facts.

This episode was recorded and edited by Adventurous Audio.

The Our Ocean podcast is brought to you by Seaful, the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to our ocean. To donate, please visit our website.

For more information about Seaful, please visit our Website, Instagram or Facebook. For questions or suggestions, please email us - podcast@seaful.org.uk.

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Dr Kat Bruce is a scientist, adventurer and expedition leader, founder of NatureMetrics, and now working for the Protected Areas Foundation. In this episode, we're going on a journey from the depths of the Amazon to the Northwest Passage, via one and a half circumnavigations of the UK in a rowing boat!

We're talking underwater magic with eDNA, or environmental DNA - the incredible scientific research technique being used around the world to monitor biodiversity, by making the invisible visible.

Kat's recommendations:

Book - Savages, by Joe Kane

Film - Ocean with David Attenborough

Other mentions:

Ullapool Sea Savers - thanks to Hunter for his facts about Lumpsuckers!

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We are delighted to be joined today by Megan Hamill, one of the recipient's of Seaful's inaugural Ocean Citizens Award in 2025. This incredible opportunity was generously created by Felix Appelbe, founder of Ocean Ambassadors, to support young people in their journey to becoming Ocean Citizens. Applications for the 2026 award are open until the end of February.

It was a joy to catch up with Megan - an ocean advocate from the Isle of Arran, and hear all about her Fintastic summer on the West Coast of Scotland with the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust, British Divers Marine Life Rescue and the Community of Arran Seabed Trust, and how the courses and experiences the award supported have helped her on her journey in marine conservation.

We hear about Megan's search for cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), and hear about some surprising species which call Scotland's waters home, including a very unassuming apex predator! We also hear about Megan's love for seabirds, and the new islands she'll be journeying to this year.

You can read more about Megan's journey here.

Huge thanks to Felix Appelbe for supporting Seaful, for creating this award, and enabling young people on their journeys to be Ocean Ambassadors.

Learn more about Young Sea Changers Scotland's Turning The Tide Course for 16-25 year olds.

This episode was recorded and edited by Adventurous Audio.

Manx Shearwater sound effect recorded by David Boyle, XC1023582. Accessible at http://www.xeno-canto.org/1023582

The Our Ocean podcast is brought to you by Seaful, the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to our ocean. To donate, please visit our website.

For more information about Seaful, please visit our Website, Instagram or Facebook. For questions or suggestions, please email us - podcast@seaful.org.uk.

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Welcome back to Our Ocean! We've had a bit of a break, but are delighted to be back at St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, with the amazing head ranger Ciaran Hatsell and his colleagues, from The National Trust for Scotland, just in time for seal pupping season!

Every year, St Abb's goes through incredible seasonal transformations. We were last here in June (check out our episode 'Seabird Spectacle' if you haven't already!) when the cliffs were lined with noisy seabirds. The cliffs might be empty now, but the beaches are COVERED in newly born grey seal pups.

And, in what we can only imagine is a global podcast first, we name one of the colony's most impressive bulls live on the podcast!

A huge thanks to Ciaran and the National Trust for Scotland; you can learn more about St Abb's Head Nature Reserve here: https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/st-abbs-head

Thank you to Isla and the Ullapool Nature Club!

If you find an injured, thin or distressed seal pup outside of a colony, please call the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR): https://bdmlr.org.uk

Seaful's 12 Days Of Christmas silent auction is here: https://uk.givergy.com/seaful/

The Our Ocean podcast is brought to you by Seaful, the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to our ocean. To donate, please visit our website.

For more information about Seaful, please visit our Website, Instagram or Facebook. For questions or suggestions, please email us - podcast@seaful.org.uk.

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Seagulls seem to divide opinion more than most wildlife! For some, they're a nostalgic sight and sound of the seaside. For others, they're a nuisance, and even a threat. In this episode, we're diving deep into why these birds, which, perhaps surprisingly, are actually made up of several endangered species, are living in more urban settings, and what can be done to navigate their curious and sometimes challenging ways and live harmoniously alongside them.

We're joined by two seabird experts from the National Trust for Scotland- Senior Seabird Officer Ellie Owen, and St Abbs Head National Nature Reserve Head Ranger, Ciaran Hatsell, for amazing insights into these masters of adaptation. We also hear from The Ullapool Sea Savers' Herring Gull ambassador, Peter, for stories of gulls in his village, where some people are delighted with their presence, and others are calling for drastic measures for their control...

Expect the unexpected in this episode as we bust some myths about these fascinating birds, and ask what we can do to protect them from further declines they're facing in their natural world, and reframe our relationship with them, championing them as the amazing predators they are.

We also have an update for you on the Berwick Bank Wind Farm proposal which we spoke about in depth in our last episode, 'Seabird Spectacle - Guillemot Jumplings'.

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This is an extra special episode, recorded mid-seabird season at St Abbs Head National Nature Reserve where we are treated to one of nature's most wonderful spectacles - guillemot chicks of only 15 days old taking a leap of faith into the ocean for the first time. The 'Jumplings' can't fly, yet leap off cliffs around the UK for a couple of weeks every year to begin their lives out at sea.

We're guided on our adventure in St Abbs by the Head Ranger, Ciaran Hatsell, who is passionate, inspiring and full of knowledge about birds and nature at large. Overlooking the wild ocean, we discuss some recent developments to protect seabirds' food source, and some proposed developments which would mean disaster for seabirds along the East coast of the UK.

Ciaran also discusses his path into his job as head ranger, and the thrill of working with the incredible seabird team at the National Trust for Scotland.

Say No To Berwick Bank Wind Farm - Scottish Seabird Centre

Excellent pages on the National Trust for Scotland's Website:

St Abbs Head National Nature Reserve

Call for Ministers to Reject Berwick Bank Wind Farm Proposal

Five Things You Can Do To Help Save Scotland's Seabirds

RSPB: The Closure of Sandeel Fisheries

The Our Ocean podcast is brought to you by Seaful, the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to our ocean. To donate, please visit our website.

For more information about Seaful, please visit our Website, Instagram or Facebook. For questions or suggestions, please email us - podcast@seaful.org.uk

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Imagine being able to fly through the water, over a magnificent seabed, at depths of up to 200 metres, without even having to get wet! The Ocean Witness report by the charity Open Seas has done exactly that, by sending an ROV, a remote operated vehicle with a camera, down into the depths over 300 times around the coast of Scotland to show us exactly what's out of sight and out of mind.

This episode of Our Ocean is with Phil Taylor from Open Seas. We dive into our ocean's amazing ecosystems, what can be found inside and outside of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), and whether the protections given to these MPAs work. We also dive into the shortcomings of the status quo of fisheries management, and what needs to be done to protect our seas.

We look at who and what could benefit from better seabed protection, and hear about Phil's Fantastic Fish Finger Butty of Fisheries Management...

This episode is based in Scotland, but is relevant wherever in the world you're listening. We hope it inspires you to use your voice for better protection of the Ocean, which as we hear in this episode, really does work for nature and people.

Links:

Visit the Open Seas website here for more information on fishing in Scotland, to read the Ocean Witness Report and to sign up for their newsletter. https://www.openseas.org.uk

You can add your name to the Our Seas petition here. https://www.ourseas.scot

The Our Ocean Podcast is brought to you by Seaful - the UK charity connecting people to our ocean. For more information about Seaful, please visit our Website, Instagram or Facebook. For questions or suggestions, please email us - podcast@seaful.org.uk

You can connect with The Our Ocean Podcast's host Cal Major through her Website, Instagram or Facebook.

This is a short and sweet round up of what's been happening in the Ocean World! We start with an update on Seaful's Vitamin Sea Project - transformative ocean experiences from the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to the ocean, followed by a quick look at the recent UN Ocean Conference. We finish up with some ideas of how you can be an Ocean Citizen this month.

This is a new style of episode to complement our longer form conversations. Let us know what you think, and if you have any suggestions of what to include in next month's round up, let us know - podcast@seaful.org.uk

Useful Links:

UN Ocean Conference

The campaign to ban bottom trawling in England's MPAs:

Blue Marine Foundation - the Bottom Line - film and information/petition

Oceana UK petition

Plastic Free July

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This is a "podcast share" with 'If I Ruled The World' - a show all about system change, with the brilliant Gillian Burke. What that means is that we've recorded this episode together, to sit on both of our platforms. It's a slightly different format to what you might be used to on Our Ocean - a little bit longer, and less of an interview, more of a conversation. Less facts and figures, and more exploring concepts.

It's by far the most challenging episode we've recorded so far - stepping into the realm of the impacts of war on the ocean and the environment, but also a conversation about why it can be so difficult to speak up against the atrocities we see in our world. Gillian is the perfect guide to help us navigate these conversations. You might recognise her from BBC's Springwatch - she's a biologist and presenter, who has stepped away from traditional Natural History filmmaking towards what felt more authentic for her - into exploring, understanding and changing the systems that govern the status quo. She shares her incredible story, braveness and insights with such eloquence.

We touch on many different topics in this episode, and through the lens of the terrible war in the Middle East, explore why it's so challenging to use our voices, why we're not being listened to, a concept called 'Learned Helplessness', what role the environmental movement does, can and needs to play in this, and why it is so vital that we don't ignore assaults on International Law.

If you're an ocean or nature lover, there are essential overlapping ideas here - from advocacy, democracy, changing tack when it's needed to how to hold and navigate the feelings of helplessness that can be so pervasive. Our hope for this episode is to spark conversation and empower you to use your voice, even when it feels scary.

Huge thank you to Gillian Burke - you can listen to If I Ruled the World on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and learn more about it here, or head to Gillian's Instagram here.

The Our Ocean Podcast is brought to you by Seaful - the UK charity dedicated to connecting people to our ocean.

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We head out onto the ocean to search for wildlife with Noel Hawkins on the Shearwater tour boat in Ullapool, Northwest Scotland. Amongst some very exciting sightings, we discuss how the ocean here has changed over the years that Noel has been working at sea, in various roles from fisherman to marine animal rescuer and now wildlife tour guide, and the impacts of fishing and marine protected areas on wildlife numbers. We also touch on tourism and what wildlife lovers can do to help protect the animals they care about.

This was a really fun episode to create, and we hope you enjoy being transported to the Summer Isles amidst amazing wildlife and scenery in the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area.

Watch our film about the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area.

Organisations mentioned by Noel include:

The Ullapool Sea Savers

Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Whale Track

Project Seagrass

Contact your MP, MSP in Scotland

Watch our film about the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area

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