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Our Mission:
Expand humanity’s understanding of the world’s oceans through exploration, inspiration, and education.

We achieve our goals by:

  • Organizing ocean expeditions to EXPLORE sites that are scientifically, historically, or environmentally critical.
  • INSPIRING students, educators and mentors with opportunities to participate with the expedition team
  • Performing public EDUCATION events to freely share the knowledge we gain during expeditions to further inspire even more people to support ocean exploration and the discovery of the deep

Upcoming Events
and Expeditions

Check out our upcoming activities including lionfish remediation, an archaeological expedition to Israel and a deep-water exploration of an 1800s shipwreck.


Hatteras Expedition

We just completed an expedition to help create a 3D sonar map and document the condition of this Civil War paddle wheeler.

Latest News

2012 Annual Report

Our 2012 Annual Report is now available.
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Our New Name Is
Explore Ocean

We changed our name from OceanGate Foundation to ExploreOcean to better illustrate our mission to explore, inspire and educate.
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Civil War Shipwreck Revealed by Sonar

Check out this National Geographic coverage of our Hatteras Expedition.

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