Ocean Geographic

There are moments in life that are unforgettable. As I reminisce, an indelible image appears; the first kiss, the first breath on scuba… the first time to achieve something incredible you have dreamt about for a long time.

An assignment on climate change in my first year at university, revealed how little I knew. Finding out about climate change, the processes and the reasons behind it, filled me with a sense of doom and guilt.

On 9th November, 1936, a blonde newborn breathed her first in Sydney, Australia. The family domiciled in Crown Street, moved to New Zealand and returned after the war when she was 16 years of age to reside in a waterfront home in Cronulla. She was christened, Valerie May.

As the Aleksey Maryshev sails from Ushuaia (Argentina), the southernmost city of our world, towards the Antarctica, I recall images I’ve seen and stories I’ve heard about the Drake Passage, famed for its roughest seas on Earth.