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Wild About Life FLASHY INDEED!
By Anna DeLoach
Swimming amongst the rare and recently discovered flasher wrasse at the little-known Flasher Beach
What It Feels Like … TO DEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO SAVING SHARKS
By Madison Stewart
The“ Shark Girl” lets us in on the passion that drives her, and tells us why it is time we all need to stand up for the ocean’ s inhabitants
Ellen Cuylaerts
FEATURE
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THE HALLMARK OF ADVENTURE
By Michelle Hall
Responsible for bringing the oceans to the IMAX screen, Michelle Hall charts her journey to becoming part of one of the world’ s most famous underwater filmmaking teams
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE: STEMMING THE TIDE OF GENDER INEQUALITY
By Dr Andrea Marshall
The“ Queen of the Mantas” explores the reasons behind the enduring underrepresentation of women in the sciences, and the opportunities for redressing the balance
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WONDERFUL WOMEN AT ADEX
Meet the extraordinary speakers gracing the ADEX stages: the sisters doing it for the sea!
Ocean Planet
108 Phototips
IMAGES ALL ROUND!
By Siaorse Berney
102 Americas
WHALES AND WALLS
By Amanda Smith
How becoming captain of a luxury liveaboard in the Turks and Caicos brought one woman a ticket to a lifetime of adventure
104 Europe
NORWAY NEVERLAND
By Catherine“ Dimpy” Jacobs
An Indonesian marine biologist jets off to explore Norway’ s underwater world as part of a unique underwater photography competition
106 Africa
MAKING CHANGE IN MADAGASCAR
By Emma Gibbons
The co-director of a radical little NGO has proven everyone wrong and changed the game for turtle conservation, through extraordinary dedication in the face of overwhelming challenges
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Oceans’ 12 BADASS WOMEN IN DIVING