To promote, protect and preserve
Welcome To Ocean Wishes
The New “Run For The Ocean” Shirts Are Available Now. Make Your Donation Today!
The new 2025 Ocean Wishes “Run for the Ocean” shirts are now available. Last year, we had a record fundraiser with these shirts, raising over $7,000. This year, let’s aim to raise over $10,000 because the ocean needs our support.
Start Making An Ocean Of Difference Today!
Ocean Wishes is a non-profit organization that makes undersea dreams come true for children worldwide. We strive to promote education and foster the protection and preservation of our marine environments. Ocean Wishes can make a wish that makes a difference. Donate: Make A Wish Today!
Each wish reaches cultures and communities around the globe, helping us promote families who can make better choices for the ocean. We do this through scholarships, beginner-advanced training grants, marine-oriented programs, and outreach projects.
Our Beliefs
- We reach out around the world to support marine environmental projects.
- We empower today’s youth to become ambassadors of the sea and educate families on preservation and impact.
- We help support and protect precious marine life from overfishing and pollution.
- We promote awareness of our responsibility to those in need.
- We help preserve precious life through financial contributions, school supply donations, volunteer work, and empowering exploration of our oceans through scuba diving.
Scholarships, Courses, And The Children We Reach
From 2010 through 2025, Ocean Wishes has provided the Women’s Diver Hall of Fame with $40,000 (plus 3-4 dive training grants each year. See the scholarships page at WDHOF. (See link) (opens in a new tab)
We believe that by fostering direct hands-on experience with our beautiful undersea world, children and their parents will make better choices about living with and loving our marine environments. We also sponsor many children across the U.S. and in local island communities, including Grand Cayman, Yap, Utila, the Galapagos, the Philippines, and Fiji. We support workshops, outreach programs, and scuba diving certifications—wishes you made!
It’s easy to make a wish for an underprivileged child or family member who wants to become a certified scuba diver. Through our Make-A-Wish program, we sponsor up to 10 beginner scuba courses each year.
We believe that when people understand and appreciate the beauty of our oceans, they will become motivated adults committed to protecting the environment for future generations. Experience is an influential teacher, and Ocean Wishes is dedicated to allowing children and their families to experience the underwater world.
Granting Ocean Wishes
- Grants wishes of underprivileged children and their families to take part in Kids Sea Camp diving (opens in a new tab) programs.
- Sponsors local children in countries in Grand Cayman, Utila, Yap, Palau, Fiji, Little Cayman, Roatan, St. Lucia, and Bonaire to participate in PADI scuba diving programs.
- Contributes to outreach programs, disaster relief, marine parks, marine animal protection programs, and reef restoration projects in all island cultures worldwide. See link to Reefrenewal.org (opens in a new tab) (Bonaire)
Ocean Wishes is dedicated to promoting, protecting, and preserving our underwater world for future generations.
Ocean Wishes is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) C15296 of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.