Here we offer a variety of articles written by ODA about our activities or issues of concern.
Located in the beautiful channel island harbor in Oxnard, California, the Channel Islands Maritime Museum is exhibiting a “pop-up display” about Ocean Defenders Alliance (ODA).
Learn where this is and when you can visit!
Read more: Channel Islands Maritime Museum Exhibit About ODA
If at first you don't succeed (100%)...try, try again!
That's what we we're doing -- returning to this sunken wreck until we get all of the fishing net off of it. We got a big portion of it! Check 'er out!
UPDATE: Video just in of our underwater net-removal work! Click the "read more" button below to view it.
We just learned of a ghost net that had trapped and killed over 300 fish. That's why we do what we do -- so that unnecessary death of marine wildlife does not occur!
So, come on a journey with our volunteer marine-debris-removing crew to see how they haul out ghost net...
Happiness for an ODA crewmember is a dockful of recovered ghost net!
Yeah, that makes us all smile a lot to know that we are successfully working towards a debris-free sea.
Come meet our three new divers who experienced that joy--including Leslie seen here with the "satisfied ocean defender" grin!
Read more: Abandoned Fishing Nets No Longer Ensnare Marine Life
See what our ODA-Hawaii volunteer divers see!
Dive in with them and watch how they "reel in" the abandoned fishing line. See one of our divers work to free a pufferfish from a hook and line!
Read more: Video: ODA-Hawaii Volunteers Untangle Coral and Pufferfish
There's nothing ocean defenders love more than seeing debris come up to the surface of the water so we can remove it!
This lets us know that we "struck gold." Come see our pirates treasure from this weekend!
Honu (green sea turtles), puffer fish, eels, coral, and many other forms of ocean life have a better chance of surviving after our ODA-Hawaii crew cleans their habitat!
Explore the underwater world and narley ocean that our crew encountered a couple days ago! TONS of great photos to enjoy!!!
When you do something for the environment, you want it to have a lasting effect, right?
Well, while removing deadly marine debris, ODA got to be part of something that will educate many people in the future: The organization Compassion Over Killing came out with us to film our debris-removal efforts for inclusion in their upcoming documentary about overfishing.
Come along and meet the ODA and COK crews! It was a great day!
Read more: Defending Ocean Life with Compassion Over Killing
ODA eliminates dangerous man-made debris which pose serious threats to ocean wildlife and habitats.
