Shannon Serpette

Writer at 30A · 27 articles

Shannon Serpette is an award-winning journalist, having received 10 Illinois Press Association writing awards across a wide variety of categories. An avid metal detectorist, Shannon spends most of her vacations at the beach searching for buried treasure. Follow her daily adventures on Twitter.

Articles by Shannon Serpette

• Meet Florida’s Manatees: All You Need to Know About These Charming Creatures
  June 27, 2024
• Top 7 Theories Behind the Mysterious Bermuda Triangle
  January 20, 2024
• The Blobfish: 5 Facts About the Ocean’s Ugliest Mug
  December 14, 2023
• Let’s Talk About Shells, Baby.
  June 21, 2022
• What Is a Bait Ball?
  March 16, 2022
• Whale of a Time: Fun Facts About Humpbacks
  March 3, 2022
• 8 Interesting Facts About Orcas
  February 16, 2022
• Meet the Jellyfish of the Gulf of Mexico
  January 30, 2022
• 6 Famous Movie And TV Beach Bars You Can Actually Visit
  January 29, 2022
• Florida Alligators: 8 Things You Didn’t Know
  January 10, 2022
• 7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Gulf of Mexico
  December 17, 2021
• Holiday Gift Guide for Ocean Lovers
  December 13, 2021
• Meet The Megalodon: Gigantic Sharks That Once Swam the Oceans
  December 9, 2021
• How Bioluminescence Works in Nature
  November 3, 2021
• The Ocean Cleanup: Using Technology to Tackle One of the World’s Biggest Challenges
  August 3, 2021
• The Most Scenic Picnic Spots on 30A, Florida
  July 28, 2021
• Sink Your Teeth into These 10 Piranha Facts
  July 27, 2021
• Top 10 Nail-Biting Shark Movies
  June 24, 2021
• Outer Banks: Haves & Have-Nots Seek Sunken Treasure
  June 21, 2021
• 7 Fish So Ugly Only Their Mothers Can Love Them
  June 3, 2021
• Need More Reasons to Love Dolphins? We’ve Got Ten of Them!
  April 25, 2021
• Meet the Incredibly Odd Humphead Wrasse
  March 2, 2021
• The Top 15 Surfer Movies of All Time
  January 25, 2021
• Surprising Facts About Peat, the Occasional Florida Beach Visitor
  November 19, 2020
• Ten Things to Know About the Mariana Trench – the Deepest Part of the Ocean
  November 18, 2020
• Everything You Never Knew About Sea Cucumbers
  October 12, 2020
• The Naked Truth: The Best Nude Beaches Around the World
  September 15, 2020