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David S. Ferriero
10th Archivist of the United States

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June 8th is World Oceans Day

CHILDREN AT REIS PARK, A PUBLIC BEACH IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY.
Danny Lyon, photographer.  From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series.

In 2008 that United Nations officially recognized World Oceans Day as a way to celebrate the body of water that links all of us.  This year the theme is Youth: the Next Wave for Change.
What’s your favorite ocean memory?

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June 8th is World Oceans Day

CHILDREN AT REIS PARK, A PUBLIC BEACH IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CITY.

Danny Lyon, photographer.  From the EPA’s DOCUMERICA series.

In 2008 that United Nations officially recognized World Oceans Day as a way to celebrate the body of water that links all of us.  This year the theme is Youth: the Next Wave for Change.

What’s your favorite ocean memory?

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  4. wanderingbutton answered: Going to Three Rooker Island with all my family, extended and immediate, and being taught the family names of the shells.
  5. cavalierzee answered: I have 2 prevailing memories who dwarf all others:
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  10. ghostofthewind answered: Going to Cape Cod with my Grandparents and finding a star fish we named it Twinkle and sent it back in the ocean. That was so long ago.
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  12. spiralated answered: Boogie boarding! And finding horseshoe crabs
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  15. iknowwhoholdstomorrow answered: riding on a boat to go look at whales and seals - it was so cold we almost got hypothermia, but it was worth it for the memories :)
  16. blue-lights-and-tea answered: diving near Turks and Caicos and in one dive bumping into a black tip reef shark, a school of hammerheads and a turtle! Bliss!
  17. nonnonmodernist answered: The time I went as a schoolkid to a marine biology center and combed the beach. I found sea anemone spines and shark’s teeth.
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  21. kindofthepoint answered: Watching crabs fight as I floated face down in the Atlantic, in Brittany, France
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