You can do it in the shower, they said, … in the pool if you must, … or, if you are feeling really adventurous, … at the beach. But explorers need to go exploring. They go places people were never meant to be, and they come back to tell their stories. Exploring the deep waters […]
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Here I am immersed in an oceanic world, 40km offshore with 120m of water below me, and I can’t get that cute and crazy song out of my head. Baby shark, do do do do do do… Pinkfong’s YouTube version of Baby Shark has become the most-viewed video of all time and I find I’m […]
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For most of our time in the water the blue sharks moved around us near the surface, sometimes close enough to make eye contact before gliding effortlessly away again. The experience changed completely when I held my breath and dived down deep. Away from the surface the sharks became lost in a blue-green world with […]
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Here I find myself floating in an ocean of green, 40km off the Irish coast. With 120m of water beneath me I should be feeling more vulnerable but the green of the phytoplankton hides any true sense of depth. We were hoping that being so far offshore the water would be clearer but the green […]
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There are places where time seems to move differently … in the strangeness of dreams, in the immersion of flow, and in the time spent beneath the ocean. Rising from the Atlantic off Ireland’s south-west coast, Bull Rock is imposing, with its famous navigable ocean tunnel, exposed lighthouse and one of Ireland’s largest gannet rookeries. […]
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