“I was living in South Africa during 2015 and working as a great white shark dive guide for Apex Shark Expeditions when I suffered a relatively significant back injury during the peak season. I was put on bed rest and wasn’t allowed to be upright for more than 15 mins per day whilst my back healed (try eating lying down lol!), which took many months and obviously I couldn’t work. Anyway, I was missing the sharks and my beloved ocean, and was very upset to be unable to use my voice for shark conservation anymore. Before dawn one morning, I lay there thinking of what to do and came up with an epic plan!”

This is the story of how I went from zero to setting up my own marine conservation organisation and delivering 87 shark conservation events in 8 countries in just ten months. Read the full interview on Coastcomber.