Oceanographic, issue 11

World class writers and photographers bring the wonder of our blue planet to life.

In Issue 11, Finisterre ambassador, big wave surf champion and environmentalist Dr Easkey Britton writes about our relationship with the ocean and the species that live within it.

Explorer Laurent Ballesta shares his learnings on encountering the remarkable grey reef sharks of the Fakarava Atoll in French Polynesia.

An 11 metre sailboat is making a 66,000km journey to reconnect the dots between wilderness and civilisation. What can the crew learn from the remote communities they visit? And, in turn, what wisdom can they leave behind?

• Learnings from half a decade of encounters with grey reef sharks.
• The cost of sportfishing on the biodiverse waters of Baja California.
• An 11-metre sailboat makes a 66,000km journey to learn from remote communities.
• A team of biologists from the California Academy of Sciences work to better protect deep mesophotic reefs.
• Drone photographer Florian Ledoux visits Antarctica to capture life from above, but what of life below the waterline?