Gifts for PeopleWho Love the Ocean

The best ocean gift is one that does two jobs: it makes the person happy, and it does something for the ocean they love. Everything on this list is sold by My Clean Ocean, a Newport Beach 501(c)(3), and the profit puts underserved young people on the water. Here is who each one is for.

Someone who loves sharks has seen every poster. Give them a photograph taken in the water by our founder, printed to order on HD metal or acrylic, ready to hang. The Mako is the clean, bold one. Big Blue is the dramatic one, mouth open under shafts of sun. The Escort, a great white over a kelp reef in South Australia, is the one for the person who wants the apex predator on the wall. Each print page tells the story of the animal and what is happening to it in the wild, which is half the gift.

The Spy Hop is flat grey water and one orca looking back. On fine art paper, framed simply, it fits any room and any taste, which makes it the safest print of the eight to give. It also carries the story of the Pacific Northwest's endangered Southern Resident orcas, for the person who likes a gift with something to say.

Kids love sea lions, and so does everyone else. The Greeting and The Acrobat were both taken at the Coronado Islands off San Diego, and they bring a family room or a kid's bedroom to life. Pair one with the tee for a bigger bundle.

The unisex staple tee in black heather is $30 and the five-panel trucker cap is $15.95, both with the My Clean Ocean mark. They are the easy gift for the diver, the surfer, the boat owner, or the teenager in one of our programs who wants to represent. Find them in the shop, below the prints.

A hundred dollars puts one kid on the water for a day, with the boat, the instructors, the cameras and the safety gear covered, at no cost to their family. Give it in someone's name on Put a Kid on the Boat and forward them the thank-you. Through December 1, 2026, Giving Tuesday, every gift is matched dollar for dollar, so a $100 gift puts two kids on the boat. Unlike a print, this one is a tax-deductible donation; our giving guide explains how that works in 2026.

Prints are made to order in the USA and shipped insured within the US, with paper rolled in a tube and metal and acrylic boxed. Because each one is printed when you order it, give yourself a few weeks before the day you need it, and ask us if you are cutting it close. Merch ships on its own schedule from the shop.

Not sure which medium or size? Our buying guide covers metal versus acrylic versus paper and what size a wall really needs. And for the story behind every photograph, read Eight Photographs, One Ocean. What all of it protects is in our guide to ocean conservation in Southern California.

Give something that was alive and swimming when the shutter closed.