Benoit Stichelbaut / La Penfield Maritime prefecture and museum and Pont (bridge) de Recouvrance. Brest, France 2005

Benoit Stichelbaut / Yachts moored in marina at Concarneau, Finistere, Brittany, France

Benoit Stichelbaut / Port du Moulin Blanc from the air, Brest, Bretagne, France. June 2005

Merryn Thomas / Pilot Gig "Isambard" moored alongside jetty in Bristol Floating Harbour marina. February 2009.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Fishing vessel moored at Port Tudy, Morbihan, Ile de Groix, France

Benoit Stichelbaut / Port of Camaret, Finistere, Brittany, France

Benoit Stichelbaut / Yachts moored in the marina at Les Sables d'Olonne for the Vendee Globe 2008/2009. 6 November 2008.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Yachts in St Malo Harbour, France. Route du Rhum, November 2002

Benoit Stichelbaut / Jean Luc van den Heede arriving at the finish line of the Global Challenge at Ouessant (Ushant), on his boat "Adrien" with a record time of 122 days, 14 hours, 3 minutes and 49 seconds. 11 March 2004.

Rob Cousins / Bow of the Helwick lightship at the Marina, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, Wales, UK. June 2009.

Rob Cousins / The Marina, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, Wales, UK. June 2009.

Rob Cousins / Lifebuoy at Marina. Maritime Quarter, Swansea, Wales, UK. June 2009.

Rob Cousins / The Marina, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, Wales, UK. June 2009.

Onne van der Wal / Wide angle view of yacht moored in marina. 12 Metre World Championships, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. September 2009.

Onne van der Wal / Yachts moored in marina, 12 Metre World Championships, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. September 2009.

Onne van der Wal / Yacht moored in marina during the 6 Metre Class World Championships. Newport, Rhode Island, USA. September 2009.

Toby Roxburgh / Spectators watching Cornish gigs leaving Portishead Marina before the start of the 2009 "Bristol River Challenge" race, during which crews row from Portishead to Bristol, ^^^travelling up the Avon Gor...

Toby Roxburgh / Cornish pilot gigs moving into the lock at Portishead Marina before the start of the 2009 "Bristol River Challenge" race, during which crews row from Portishead to Bristol, ^^^travelling up the Avon G...

Toby Roxburgh / Sailing-boats moored in the marina at Saint-Martin-de-Re, busy quayside behind, Ile de Re, France, 2007.

Onne van der Wal / Small marina filled with yachts in Valparaiso, Chile, 2008.

Onne van der Wal / Small marina filled with sailing boats on trailers. Valparaiso, Chile, 2008.

Onne van der Wal / Small marina filled with sailing boats on trailers. Valparaiso, Chile, 2008.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Fishing boats moored alongside jetty in Concarneau, Finistere, Brittany, France

Benoit Stichelbaut / D'Audierne port, Finistere, Brittany, France

Nick Turner / Canal boats moored up at the Tewkesbury Marina, Gloucestershire, UK, June 2011.

Nick Turner / Canal boats moored up at the Tewkesbury Marina, Gloucestershire, UK, June 2011.

MYN / Niall Benvie / Lugworm (Arenicola marina), Scotland, UK, September meetyourneighbours.net project

Merryn Thomas / Bristol coxwain in Portishead Marina. Avon River Cornish Pilot Gig Race, Bristol, March 21st 2009.

Brent Stephenson / White-faced Storm-petrel (Pelagodroma marina) feeding by pattering on the sea surface. Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand, November.

Bert Willaert / Cane / Giant Marine Toad (Rhinella marina / Bufo marinus). Ecuador, South America.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Gray Mangrove (Avicennia marina) tree, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Sea scoropion / scorpionfish (Taurulus bubalis) on edge of an Eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadow (overgrown with filamentous algae), Studland Bay, Dorset, UK, May

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in front of dolphin-watching tourist boat in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in front of dolphin watching tourist boat in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011, s...

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in front of dolphin-watching tourist boat in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011, s...

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in front of dolphin watching tourist boat in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011, s...

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Yacht entering Inverness Marina with Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) bow riding. Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August 2011

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Yacht entering Inverness Marina with Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) bow riding. Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August 2011

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) beside RIB boat in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, September 2011

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011, sequence 3/3

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011, sequence 2/3

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in front of dolphin-watching tourist boat in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching in Kessock Narrows, viewed from Inverness Marina, Inverness-shire, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, August 2011, sequence 1/3

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Man and dog on yacht entering Inverness Marina watching Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August 2011

Ernie Janes / Lugworms (Arenicola marina) dug for fishing bait, UK

Ernie Janes / Lugworm (Arenicola marina) casts in sand and mud at low tide, UK

Sue Daly / Eel Grass (Zostera marina) swaying in the current. Channel Islands, UK, May.

Sue Daly / Eel Grass (Zostera marina) swaying in the current. Channel Islands, UK, May.

Ernie Janes / Fisherman digging for Lugworms (Arenicola marina) on mudflats at low tide, for use as fishing bait, Morston, Norfolk, UK, May

Pete Oxford / Cane Toad / Giant Marine Toad (Rhinella / Bufo marina) on buttress roots. Ecuador.

Alex Mustard / An adult female Spiny Seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) in a meadow of seagrass (Zostera marina). Studland Bay, Dorset, England, UK, August. Photographed under licence from Marine Management Organisat...

Alex Mustard / An adult female Spiny Seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) in a meadow of seagrass (Zostera marina). Studland Bay, Dorset, England, UK, August. Photographed under licence from Marine Management Organisat...

Alex Mustard / Large / Pot Bellied Seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis) portrait. Blairgowrie Marina, Mornington Peninsular, Victoria, Australia, March.

Alex Mustard / A Great Pipefish (Syngnathus acus) peers out from filamentous algae that is overgrowing a seagrass bed (Zostera marina). Studland Bay, Dorset, England, UK, May.

Brent Stephenson / White-faced Storm-Petrel (Pelagodroma marina) pulling prey from the sea whilst "water skipping" - walking on water with wings raised. Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, New Zealand, February.

Toby Roxburgh / Bristol marina, on Bristol's floating Harbour, England, April 2010.

Robert Thompson / Aerial view of Ballycastle marina, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, September 2009

Robert Thompson / Aerial view of Bangor Marina, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK, September 2009

Angelo Gandolfi / Sea Medick (Medicago marina) flowering on sandy shore, Italy, May

Daniel Heuclin / Cane toad (Bufo marinus) head portrait, French Guiana, South America,

Miles Barton / Dubai harbour and city with skyscrapers under construction, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February 2010

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Giant Neotropical / Cane Toad (Bufo marinus) Emas National Park, Gois State, Brazil.

Jean E. Roche / Aerial view of Grande Motte marina, a tourist complex in the Languedoc, France, June 2008

Stephen Dalton / Giant / Cane toad {Bufo marinus} controlled conditions, from South America

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Abu Dhabi City, panorama from Marina area, composite, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2008

Robert Thompson / Lichen {Caloplaca marina} Killard Point NNR, County Down, Northern Ireland, October

Robert Thompson / Lichen {Caloplaca marina} Killard Point NNR, County Down, Northern Ireland, october

Robert Thompson / Fishermen digging for Lugworms {Arenicola marina} at low tide, Belfast Habour Estate, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, August 2006

Robert Thompson / Beach with sand covered in Lugworm casts and burrows {Arenicola marina} County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Robert Thompson / Fishermen digging for Lugworms {Arenicola marina} at low tide, Belfast Habour Estate, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, August 2006

Robert Thompson / Lugworm cast and burrow in sand {Arenicola marina} Northern Ireland, UK.

Robert Thompson / Lichens {Ttephromela atra} (white) and {Caloplaca thallincola} and {Caloplaca marina} Killard Point NNR, near Strangford, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK, September

Juan Manuel Borrero / Sierra de Marina Natural Park, with Barcelona city in the background. Catalonia, Spain.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Sierra de Marina Natural Park, with Barcelona city in the background. Catalonia, Spain.

Martin Gabriel / Juvenile Giant / Cane toad (Bufo marinus) Osa Peninsula, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Matthew Maran / Kayaker amongst Marine eelgrass (Zostera marina) Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, Bitish Columbia, Canada

Matthew Maran / Marine eelgrass (Zostera marina), Ucluelet Inlet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Juan Carlos Munoz / Iguana marina, Isla Española, Islas Galapagos, Ecuador, January

Eric Baccega / St Peter Port and marina, Guernsey, Channel Islands. May 2009.

Eric Baccega / St Peter Port and marina, Guernsey, Channel Islands. May 2009.

Eric Baccega / St Peter Port and marina, Guernsey, Channel Islands. May 2009.

Eric Baccega / St Peter Port and marina, Guernsey, Channel Islands. May 2009.

Roger Powell / Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) catching Lugworm (Arenicola marina) & pulling it out from its hole in the sand. Holy Island, Northumberland, UK

Rob Cousins / Portishead Marina near Bristol, UK. March 21st 2009.

Merryn Thomas / Bristol Floating Harbour marina in the morning, February 2009.

Colin Monteath / Marina Svetaeva, an ice-strengthened Russian cruise ship in McMurdo Sound sea ice, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Colin Monteath / Wave breaking over bow of tourist ship Marina Svetaeva, Antarctica

Colin Monteath / Tourists on bow of Marina Svetaeva approaching Cape Adare, Antarctica

Rob Cousins / Ornate garden on narrow boat moored in Marina, Bristol Floating Harbour, UK , July 2008

Rob Cousins / Busy Bristol Marina, August 2008

Rob Cousins / Cabin cruisers moored in marina during the Bristol Harbour Festival, August 2008

Rob Cousins / Woman outside her Dutch barge moored in Marina, Bristol Floating Harbour, UK. July 2008, Model Released

Rob Cousins / Narrowboats, cabin cruisers and yachts moored at Bristol Marina in summer, with Clifton skyline in the background, 2008