Oceanography for Everyone is designed to create a community for the sharing open-source hardware and tools for monitoring and understanding the marine environment. Within each project, there are “resources, build guides, 3-D printer codes, code repositories, and, eventually, databases”. The site is working closely with the OpenROV project to create tools that can be deployed from or by the ROV.

Current hardware on the site includes water samplers, conductivity, temperature and depth sensors and a field laptop. The Oceanography for Everyone team are soliciting entries from groups or individuals for additional tools.