How Surfing Lead One NatGeo Explorer to The Depths of The Ocean | National Geographic

my first experience with the ocean
started out is a surfer
I just loved being in the water I love
riding waves I love the energy of the
ocean and there was no cost to entry to
surfing you know once I had a surfboard
I could just ride waves all day that
love for the ocean really started from
from being in the ocean but of course
one thing leads to another it became
time to get a job and when I wasn’t good
at unloading trucks or other jobs I went
back to what I really love to do what I
really love to be in the ocean I looked
at the list of majors oceanography it
just came out so at first it was about
finding the best surf spots I would use
my knowledge of physical oceanography to
find the best way breaks and
and I kind of would look underneath my
board and I’d be like there’s all these
animals down there and I started
freediving and that kind of just seeing
all the animals down there
kind of really turned me on just the
amount of my life then then I learned
how to scuba dive and one of the things
that I s I learned early is that scuba
diving at night was just phenomenal
because one not many scientists or not
many people go in the ocean at night for
me the ocean at night just transforms
into this whole other universe and I
like to go to places where other people
don’t go so if everybody’s studying one
thing that’s not what I’m gonna go and
I’m not gonna go study there I’m gonna
go to the place where no one’s going and
it didn’t seem like there was that many
people studying glowing animals at the
bottom of the ocean so that’s where I
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