Joe Lo Truglio

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.

American Actor

Anouska Hempel

The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.

New Zealander Actress

Timothy Spall

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

English Actor

Alexander Armstrong

At Classic FM we're not an exposed shoreline where anything might come in on the tide. We're a lagoon; it's safe. You can tune in late at night and know it won't be contemporary.

Guillermo del Toro

The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know.

Mexican Director

Henry Timrod

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

American Poet

Ted Bell

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

American Author

Jim Gerlach

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

American Politician

A lagoon often forms naturally near coastal areas.

Natural Formation

Lagoons are usually shallow and have calmer water than the open sea.

Protected Waters

Lagoons can support diverse ecosystems and wildlife.

Ecological Importance

Man-made lagoons are designed for specific purposes, such as waste treatment.

Artificial Basin

In engineering, lagoons are important for environmental management.

Environmental Engineering

Such lagoons can control water flow and prevent flooding.

Water Management

 their subjects the team gets the close-ups here in the lagoon but what about the bigger picture how much mating occurs in the places they can observe in the vast area outside the study site well that's a job for critter cam this is an animal that lives in deeper water it's long lived we

Sharks in Love PIPE...

 they eat, and they keep the reef clean and allow the corals to replenish. Not only do these places -- these ancient, pristine places -- have lots of fish, but they also have other important components of the ecosystem like the giant clams; pavements of giant clams in the lagoons,

Enric Sala: Glimpses of...

 is an oasis in the middle of the Kalahari Desert a sanctuary for the incredible wildlife and biodiversity of this region a vast patchwork mosaic of channels floodplains lagoons and thousands upon thousands of islands here you can find the abundance of life all

Africa’s Pristine Delta...

 Its reef forms a protective outer barrier and the inner lagoon is a nursery ground for Galapagos sharks. These sharks are anything but shy, even during the day. I had a bit of a hunch that they'd be even bolder and more abundant at night.

Dive into an ocean...

 They followed them upriver deep into the jungle to a lagoon that thundered with the sound of flapping fish. The whole village set up camp by the lagoon, bringing barbasco, a poison they would put in the water to stun the fish.

The myth of the stolen...

 reefs at their highest they are ten feet above sea level as the average temperature of the oceans climb estimates are that many of these living breathing still growing reefs and the lagoons they protect will very likely

Disappearing Island PIPE...

 been up close and very personal with their subjects the team gets the close-ups here in the lagoon but what about the bigger picture how much mating occurs in the places they can observe in the vast area

 pairs spend the summer here the salty lagoons provide everything they could wish for but life here isn't quite as peaceful as they'd hoped

Wild Horses Run into...

 but step back from the beach and there's another very different world a vast shallow lagoon dotted with mangrove trees

Bizarre Mating Ritual Of...

 lagoon uh which is actually artificial but it it's designed in a way to to conceal its artifice