I am Water Ocean Foundation

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210304-can-hanli-prinsloo-help-south-africa-reclaim-its-oceans

• BBC Travel

5 March 2021

Growing up on a horse farm outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Hanli Prinsloo dreamed of being a mermaid – never mind that the closest ocean was a 10-hour drive away. After a friend introduced her to freediving at university, Prinsloo turned her childhood dreams into reality, plunging 60m into the ocean’s depths and holding her breath for six minutes while breaking 11 South African freediving records.

She founded  I Am Water Ocean Conservation foundation

we now run an Ocean Guardians workshop model that has seen more than 6,000 young participants experience the ocean in a transformational and immersive way – many for the very first time.

I believe that the greatest overarching risks to our oceans is the belief that they are too vast to ever truly be at risk and the disconnect between humanity and nature. From this comes the symptoms – overfishing, pollution (plastic and others), species and habitat loss (biodiversity depletion) and, of course, climate change – that could eliminate life in our oceans through ocean acidification and all the other effects from an unstable environment.