The Ocean Tribe Hangout Zandile Ndhlovu

Martina is an environmental journalist, scuba diver instructor & shark conservationist. Her purpose is to create awareness about the ocean and its marine life through storytelling.
She has also developed an environmental & educational program called women of the ocean in Panama, to connect the indigenous women to the sea, that expands into an online platform where women share their ocean knowledge, inspire and support each other. 

Her film, Missing Sharks, is a journalistic investigation about shark hunting in Panama to create awareness about the need of them in the ocean, we chat a little about this too! Do enjoy! Find her on social media : @oceanomartina

Dr Keneiloe Molopyane is a Post Doctoral Research fellow at The centre for the exploration of the Deep Human Journey, she is an archeologist who has also done underwater archeology work in researching the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade closer to our shoes, here in Cape Town, she is also a Natgeo Emerging Explorer expanding the World of what scientists look like, enjoy!

Find her on Twitter & Instagram : @keneiloe 

Read more about Shamier Magmoet below,

I had my first experience freediving 4 years ago, and wanted to share my experience and what I saw with children.

Two years ago I co-founded Seathebiggerpicture Ocean Initiative of which I am the Vice Chairman.

I have also entered a film pitch competition in Durban called NEW Pitch hosted by NEWF, where I was one of the winners to go on to make my first short film called Rise From The Cape Flats which is currently being broadcasted by 50/50, NEWF, and Nat Geo Africa.

Since my first freediving experience, I have fell deeply in love with our ocean, and now all I do is advocate for her, and try to connect our communities with her.

A phenomenal conversation with Shamier Magmoet, a film maker, underwater photographer, conservation and all round water human.. we speak passions, representation, collaborations and stories of love! The ocean is love!

@shamier_ocean left us with the following ‘if you want to do something, start doing it, there’s nothing stopping you from starting... and if you want to win competitions, you should make effort to enter them’, I’m guilty of the last bit 😂😂



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We have Rose Santana, she was born in Dominican Republic and moved to Germany.

She has a Bachelors degree in Biotechnology, with her passion for the ocean, she eventually moved to Miami Florida and earned her second Bachelors degree in Marine Biology.

She was the President of her schools chapter of the Society of Women in Marine Science and later selected to participate in a 21-Day research expedition in the Canadian Arctic,  where she used drones and ROVs to look at ice formations.

She currently works as the lab manager of the Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology laboratory at Florida International University, where their current study is the effects of metal contaminants on fish behavior, primarily predator-prey interactions.



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Thando Mazomba, a phenomenal water woman who is a Marine Biologist, Oceanographer and all round water human!

Thando is a Water Woman, a Marine Biologist, an Oceanographer, a Global Ambassador for @thesireneproject and all the good that we need to see in the world! We talk about all of this and representation and she left us with the advice to keep asking ourselves what makes us happy, and that it’s okay for this answer to change from a week, a year or a day ago, and to just stay true!



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Weldon is a Bermudian SCUBA diver, freediver and closed-circuit rebreather diver, commercial diver and founder of community organization called Guardians of the Reef. Weldon is also the Communications Coordinator for the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme which is led by the Government of Bermuda, in collaboration with the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science and the Waitt Institute. He is also an Ambassador for 5Gyres, Pathwater and Seahive and recently joined the 2020 PADI AmbassaDiver cohort.

Weldon is well known in Bermuda and beyond for his passion for the ocean, organizing beach clean ups, boat trips, expeditions, lionfish culling events and community outreach.

Weldon holds more than 10 years of diving experience, serves on numerous boards and committees of Bermuda's conservation and ocean organizations, and was a speaker at TEDxBermuda in 2014.

Career Highlights

• Founder of Guardians of the Reef, ocean advocacy NGO

• TEDx Bermuda speaker, “Diving with Purpose” (2014)

• Director at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration We talk about rebreathers, guardians of the Reef conservation, passion meeting purpose and what it means to be an ambassadiver! Tuck in! Thanks

• Deputy Chairman of the Bermuda Historic Wrecks Authority

• Featured on Smithsonian magazine online for ocean exploration (2019)

• Featured on the cover of Going Green magazine (2019)

• Best of Bermuda Award 2015 – Unsung Hero, for Ocean Advocacy

• The first and only Bermudian certified freediver/scuba diver/CCR diver

• KBB award recipient for Shore Savers Marine Debris Project (2014)

• Mission Director and Founder of sea survey project, “16 Fathoms”


Ambassador for 5Gyres.org, Seahive and Pathwater

We talk about rebreathers, guardians of the Reef conservation, passion meeting purpose and what it means to be an ambassadiver!



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