#storiesfromtheblue

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.

Through his "Shipwreck Alley" class, high school teacher John Caplis has been connecting Alpena High School students directly to the nearby Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Additionally, the sanctuary has worked to support existing businesses while helping to create new opportunities for tourism. The Thunder Bay Maritime Festival that now draws more than 10,000 visitors a year to the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center and the Maritime Heritage Trail. Partnerships with the public library preserve a century’s worth of important maritime history documents. Working with the local theater, the sanctuary brings the Thunder Bay International Film Festival to Alpena, Michigan, each year. The sanctuary’s partnership with Alpena Community College has produced a successful marine technology program, while a decades-long partnership with the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center hosts ROV competitions for regional high school students.

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On October 23, 2022, the sanctuary system celebrates its 50th anniversary and is using the opportunity to, among other things, issue this re

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Did you know NOAA has a uniformed service? The NOAA Corps supports NOAA’s research missions from American Samoa all the way up to Maine – including in your national marine sanctuaries.

The application deadline for BOTC 142 is November 11, 2022 and for IST 10012 is March 17, 2023.

Learn more:

Thank you for your interest in joining the NOAA Corps! We currently offer two application cycles for a new recruit at our Basic Officer Trai

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Travel to the “Serengeti of the Sea” to see whales, seals, sharks, sea otters, and more all without getting wet!

Check out what Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary has to offer by visiting our video gallery: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/gallery/monterey-bay.php. (Photo: NOAA. Image description: Orange, purple, and red sea stars and anemones.)

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Stories from the Blue: Discovering Inner Earth

"Most people look at a cave and they see nothing but darkness. But for me and for my colleagues, we look into the darkness and we see opportunity." Jill Heinerth is one of the world's premiere underwater explorers. She has dived everywhere from the sea caves of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary to inside iceberg caves. Watch our video to hear Jill's Story from the Blue and to learn what makes underwater caves so special – in Jill's words, "the veins of Mother Earth."