Okeanos, one of the first gods in the ancient Greeks’ heaven and, at the same time, a personification of the ocean itself, forms a bond between the material and the spiritual and stands as sponsor to our foundation. The ocean is at once a unique bridge between continents, an ally of the global climate, and closely associated with our lives as human beings. If the ocean suffers, so do all living creatures including ourselves. Being home to countless animals and plants, it stands in need of our protection. We fund scientific projects devoted to marine conservation and make their findings available to the public. We also aim to render the fascinating wonders of the deep more widely known.
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Dieter Paulmann and Okeanos Team
DR. DIETRICH WITTEKIND, of the company DW-SHIPCONSULT GMBH and workshop participant, reports on the progress made following the Okeanos Foundation's 2008 Workshop on Shipping Noise and Marine Mammals. For instance, both the International Maritime Organisation, partially as a direct result of the workshop, and the European Union are addressing the issue of underwater-radiated shipping noise.Read Article
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