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Jeff chats to… Sylvia Earle – diving legend and explorer (Watch Video)

Published 5 years agoon October 26, 2021

In this exclusive Zoom interview, Jeff Goodman, Scubaverse Editor-at-Large, chats to diving legend and explorer Sylvia Earle about her new National Geographic book – Ocean: A Global Odyssey – and the Mission Blue project.

Sylvia Earle is a marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author and lecturer, scuba diver, and research scientist. She founded Mission Blue, an organization dedicated to protecting the ocean from threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat destruction, invasive species, and the dramatic decrease in ocean fish stocks.

Sylvia has dived in all five of the world’s oceans, and plays a leading role in establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) as “hope spots” around the world. MPAs are intended to “protect and restore the blue heart of the planet.”

Find out more at www.mission-blue.org

Rather listen to a podcast? Listen to the audio HERE on the new Scubaverse podcast channel at Anchor FM.

Jeff Goodman

Jeff is a multiple award winning, freelance TV cameraman/film maker and author. Having made both terrestrial and marine films, it is the world's oceans and their conservation that hold his passion with over 10.000 dives in his career. Having filmed for international television companies around the world and author of two books on underwater filming, Jeff is Author/Programme Specialist for the 'Underwater Action Camera' course for the RAID training agency. Jeff has experienced the rapid advances in technology for diving as well as camera equipment and has also experienced much of our planet’s marine life, witnessing, first hand, many of the changes that have occurred to the wildlife and environment during that time. Jeff runs bespoke underwater video and editing workshops for the complete beginner up to the budding professional.