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Ocean Rising Connecting culture and the ocean. Ocean Rising is founded by Schmidt Ocean Institute & Nekton.

Our community is made up of the Ocean Rising Alliance (ocean advocates and cultural creators), our Ambassadors, and our wonderful followers!

08/09/2026

You won’t believe what our new Alliance member does for a living.

🧜‍♀️ 💃 Alexandra Gordeeva - - teaches people to dance underwater

🫧 Built over more than 25 years of teaching, her method is called artfreediving and it works less like a sport and more like a conversation with the water.

Body awareness first, biomechanics second, and no pressure to dive deep.

The results are mesmerising to watch 🤩

🌀 Every move looks like slow motion. No kicking, no hurry, just a body unfolding through the water at half speed.

The sea runs through her whole family.

💙 “I gave birth to my two children in the water,” Alexandra says “and raised them with a love for the ocean.”

Welcome to the pod! 🐬

Go watch her incredible videos (no need to hold your breath).

02/09/2026

🎶 🤔 What makes a British indie folk band put their music in service of the ocean?

📹 Hear it straight from them - in this beautiful video we filmed with .

Recently, they’ve been taking the time to step out of the rehearsal studio and into the wild habitats that inspire their songs, to celebrate becoming Ocean Rising founding ambassadors.

🙏 We’re so grateful for your spirit and your songs.

Watching our fantastic ambassadors Stornoway take the stage at FoundFestival, as the Friday headliners. We love seeing a...
28/08/2026

Watching our fantastic ambassadors Stornoway take the stage at FoundFestival, as the Friday headliners.

We love seeing and supporting bands who are also championing the ocean! 💪🌊

25/08/2026

👩‍🔬 Think you need a boat license or a degree in marine biology to protect the ocean?

Think again.

Working for our seas doesn’t always mean working in them.

In fact, for our ocean to truly thrive, we need lots of voices and perspectives beyond the research labs and coastal planning offices.

💙 The way to reach them? It’s culture!

So if you’re an artist exploring new perspectives...
A connector building bridges between communities...
An athlete pushing boundaries...
An adventurer exploring new horizons...
Or a fashionista setting trends with purpose...

The ocean needs you. And we’re building a community to help you share your gifts.

Learn how to join the Ocean Rising alliance https://www.oceanrising.org/the-ocean-rising-alliance/

20/08/2026

🥇 We’ve got another champion in the family!

Meet the new Ocean Rising Ambassador Alex Yee - .

🏊 Alex is Britain’s most decorated Olympic triathlete, with two golds, a silver and a bronze to his name, including that unforgettable individual title at Paris 2024.

It was there, when water quality delayed his own event, that Alex witnessed just how damaged and fragile our waterways and seas really are.

📢 Ever since, he has been using his media reach as world-class athlete to advocate for ocean health.

As an Ambassador, he’ll help us show how sport can bring blue advocacy to entirely new audiences.

Welcome to the team, Alex! 🙌

30/07/2026

Our new album Beyonder, which is out in September, is full of sounds of the natural world, and the ocean plays a special role in that. If you came to our Royal Albert Hall show in March, the soundscapes we used there included the songs of humpback whales, a person diving underwater, and sounds of a storm at sea. We have populated our songs over the years with sea birds and crashing waves, and it's a habitat that has really fed so much of what we’ve done we've done lyrically and musically. So the ocean is something we really care about.

That’s why we’re so excited to announce that we are founding ambassadors of Ocean Rising.

Ocean Rising is a global initiative that brings the ocean into the heart of contemporary culture across art, music, fashion, sport and beyond. They work with artists, brands and institutions to share ocean stories in unexpected places, from galleries and festivals to city streets, reaching people who might not usually stop to think about the sea. Their aim is simple: to help shift how the ocean is seen, not as something distant, but as a vital, living force that shapes our climate, our histories and our future. They believe people protect what they love, and that connecting more people to the ocean is a powerful place to start.

Please follow Ocean Rising and help us support their amazing cause!

30/07/2026

Meet our newest Ambassadors, Stornoway 👇

01/07/2026

Have you met ? If not, you’re in for a treat! 🙌

Our latest founding ambassador has the kind of presence that stops you mid-scroll.

⚽️ Besides being a world-class goalkeeper for San Diego Wave FC and the National Women’s Soccer League, Didi is a talented visual storyteller and ocean fanatic.

💙 She sees the world through a creative lens and knows that sport, nature and creativity aren’t separate languages.

And that’s what our ocean needs right now: brave voices that can speak on its behalf across borders and beyond made-up niches.

🎬 So glad to have you here, Didi. Let’s tell some stories together!

17/06/2026

👀 POV: you’re a world-class artist shaping whales out of ghost nets, and your sculptures have just traveled 36 hours to a 25-metre concrete silo in the Finnish Arctic.

Welcome to Tessa Campbell Fraser’s world. ✨

🇫🇮 Follow her as she gives us a tour of her latest exhibition inside a 1931 Bauhaus masterpiece designed by Alva Aalto and transformed by Factum Arte into a space for cultural preservation and contemporary art.

Oh, and the clicking sounds behind her? That’s s***m whale talk!

🐋 Ancient, intelligent, deeply complex. Inviting us to imagine ourselves down there, in conversation with these gentle giants.

08/06/2026

🌊 Happy World Ocean Day!

We asked our Alliance members and Ambassadors what they love about the ocean. The word that came up most? Home 🐚

The comfort of the beach where they grew up. The way their worries wash away during a dive. The magic of making eye contact with an octopus. Or the coast they return to for inspiration - again and again 🐋

That’s why we’re all in this collective, working to protect the sea. Because creativity helps us remember that we belong to it 💙

Why do you love the ocean? Tell us below 👇

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