Ocean, the sea, and everything with fins and gills. Post anything regarding preservation or enjoyment of the ocean and its inhabitants, especially photos of the sea. All oceans are welcome. Founded 2009 · 186.9K members · links only
188K members. The best post we have captured here reached
13.2K upvotes, which works out to
70 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Video 70%Image 16%Gallery 8%Link 6%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Underwater Wonders 77Whale Watch 55Marine Animal Magic 36Shark sights 30Power of the Sea 29Beach Day Bliss 26Ocean Art & DIY 25Ocean Science & Conservation 22Fishy Friends 22Dolphrens 22
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/ocean?
r/ocean ("Ocean, the sea, and everything with fins and gills") describes itself this way: Post anything regarding preservation or enjoyment of the ocean and its inhabitants, especially photos of the sea. All oceans are welcome. It was founded in 2009 and has 186.9K members.
How many members does r/ocean have?
r/ocean has about 188K members. ViralHunt has tracked 392 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.2K upvotes, which is 70 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ocean?
"Red-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini)" reached 13.2K upvotes and 556 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ocean.
What subreddits are similar to r/ocean?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/ocean?
Of the posts we hold, 70% are video posts and 16% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ocean?
Across 392 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 07:00 UTC (6.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 14:00 UTC (5.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ocean?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ocean has 8.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 26 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ocean, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.