This week on Saltwater Stories, we leave the ocean surface behind and look back at it from hundreds of miles above Earth. From the launch of the first ocean watching satellite to today’s fleets of high speed robots in orbit, this episode explores how scientists learned to study the sea from space. We journey through the rise of satellite oceanography and discover how these silent watchers measure waves, winds, heat, and sea level while helping track storms, protect coral reefs, stop illegal fishing, and rescue sailors lost in the vast open ocean. Seen from orbit, the ocean becomes a living, moving system, and watching it from space has changed how we understand and care for our blue planet.

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This week on Saltwater Stories we journey into the warm blue waters of the tropics to meet one of the ocean’s most misunderstood predators the barracuda. From its legendary partnership with ancient Hawaiian fishermen to its fifty million year reign as a master of speed and survival this episode reveals the barracuda as far more than a fearsome silhouette in the reef. We explore its astonishing biological design from rocket powered muscle and razor sharp dual teeth to night vision eyes and a sensory system that can feel the movement of prey in total darkness. Along the way we uncover the many species that make up the barracuda family the hidden role they play in protecting coral reefs and the quiet coastal nurseries their future depends on. This is the story of an apex predator that is also a guardian a living machine shaped by deep time and now standing at a crossroads in a changing ocean.

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This week on Saltwater Stories, we trace the epic origin story of Earth’s water, from a molten world of fire and chaos to the shimmering blue planet we call home. The journey begins not in the ocean, but in the violent birth of our solar system, when Earth was a glowing sea of magma and space itself delivered both destruction and possibility.

Along the way, we meet obsessed astronomers, wandering asteroids, ancient diamonds, and hidden oceans locked deep inside the planet’s mantle. We uncover how rain once fell for thousands of years without stopping, how life itself transformed the seas from green to blue, and why our planet was lucky enough to keep its water while worlds like Mars and Venus lost theirs.

This episode reveals that the water in your glass today is older than dinosaurs, older than oceans, older than Earth’s surface itself. It is a traveler from fire, space, stone, and time. And knowing that story changes how we understand every single drop.

A story of science, chance, and wonder that reshapes how we see our world and our responsibility to protect it.

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