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Many visits to U.S. national marine sanctuaries happen aboard a vessel. Vessels are essential to the recreation and tourism experiences that people have in sanctuaries, as well as research, commerce, and national security. Information about vessel use is important for managing sanctuaries to both estimate the value of these special places to their many users and to understand the impacts that vessels can have on the marine animals that inhabit them. This StoryMap highlights what we are learning about vessels in sanctuaries by listening underwater.
National marine sanctuaries are home to coral communities across the United States and territories. Explore more about the reefs that inhabit the sanctuary system through our catalog of web stories from new discoveries in the world of coral, important research, coral bleaching, and reef damage.
As we explored out into and under our seas, there too we found features worth naming. While today, naming an underwater feature is a formalized process coordinated by international organizations, many names of underwater features reflect the history of how, and often who, discovered them. Your national marine sanctuaries have names too, usually derived from the geographic area they encompass or the resources they protect. But where did those names come from in the first place? Let’s take a voyage and learn the stories behind the names of some of the nation’s most important ocean places.