Deep Thinker

Marine biologist and explorer Sylvia Earle has studied the sea and its creatures for more than 50 years. Now she’s campaigning for a new wave of marine parks

BY OLIVER GILES

On a hot, breezy morning in September 1979, the oceanographer Sylvia Earle donned an armoured diving suit, was strapped to the front of a small submarine and dropped into the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. A few metres down, the thunder of the surf and squawking of the seagulls had disappeared. At 100 metres the light started to fade. By 200 metres it was almost pitch black. At an incredible 381 metres, the sub hit the seabed with a clunk and Earle untethered herself and stepped into the darkness. For many this would have been a nightmare. But for Earle this record-breaking dive into the unknown was the culmination of a long-held dream—a dream to explore the oceans from balmy shallows to icy depths, from whitewashed poles to…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2019

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