A collection of eighteen poems about life in the ocean.

The shark / Lord Alfred Douglas -- Whale / Geoffrey Dearmer -- Do oysters sneeze? / Jack Prelutsky -- Seashore / Blake Morrison -- The lobster quadrille / Lewis Carroll -- Grim and gloomy / James Reeves -- The barracuda / John Gardner -- Undersea / Marchette Chute -- My other granny / Ted Hughes -- The mermaid. The eel / Ogden Nash -- Ocean diners / J. Patrick Lewis -- The dolphin / Alan Bold -- There was once an old person of Hyde / Edward Lear -- Narwhal / X.J. Kennedy -- A sea-serpent saw a big tanker / Anonymous -- The flattered flying fish / E.V. Rieu -- Seal lullaby / Rudyard Kipling.