Dear friends, Dear visitors, Dear explorers of the underwater world, A little message of hope to celebrate the New Year 2021! For two days now, one of our monitoring systems installed in Greece has been sending us images that seem surreal. Day and night, eight to eleven Mediterranean monk seals come together to share moments…
Dear friends, the Octopus Foundation team has the immense privilege of announcing the birth of a baby Mediterranean monk seal in the early morning of November 2nd, 2020. This happy event took place in one of the caves that we remotely monitor with our open source systems. Our cameras installed in different sites are perfectly…
On Thursday September 17, 2020, the Greek Ionian Islands were struck by a phenomenal storm. This cyclone, named “Ianos”, is the latest of a long list of low pressure systems that usually build in autumn when masses of cold air circulate over the summer-heated Mediterranean Sea. While violent storms are not that rare, their intensity…