Kahi Kai ^® Images is a marine related image database founded by marine developmental biologist and photographers Aldine Amiel and Eric Roettinger that features unique portraits of marine sea creatures as well as a large variety of editorial images that reflect life in, on or near the oceans. Observing and photographing sea creatures and ocean related topics for scientific, outreach, educational and editorial purposes is of particular interest for Kahi Kai ^® Images. All represented animals have been handled carefully for the purpose of the portrait and released in their original habitats right after the photo session.

30% of the proceeds of this website are donated to the non profit organization Kahi Kai ^® ("one ocean" in traditional hawaiian) that promotes our ocean legacy to the next generations. Kahi Kai ^® is an online community designed to connect the oceans of the world by promoting communication and interaction between students, scientists, artists, journalists, politicians, fishermen, divers, surfers and everyone who is interested and committed to the fascinating, mysterious and endagered marine world.

Kahi Kai ^® is involved in various global educational and scientific projects. Promoting the knowledge and the conscience of our ocean legacy to the public, the politicians and deciders in order to make each of us aware of the culture of the oceans and appeal to our responsibility to preserve the threatened marine world. For the past two 1/2 years we joined TARA Oceans, a unique study of marine life on a planetary scale, to image planktonic and coral reef biodiversity. More info can be found on the official TARA expedition website www.taraexpedition.org

In the past few years Kahi Kai ^® Images have been used for advertising campaigns or to illustrate covers and articles of books, journals and websites (see examples below).