In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we hear from Samantha Whitcraft to learn how the Sea of Change Foundation creates positive change in the dive industry.
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Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.
Today’s episode is about The Sea of Change Foundation. Now you’ve heard me describe before about our office and inventory as dive professionals is our reefs and fishes.
We really need to care about our inventory. We need to live it and be examples for it and be educators. Well The Sea of Change Foundation funds conservation and research initiatives that directly impact the natural world we all love to enjoy and explore. Their mission is to create positive change.
Their motto is leading through education and conservation. Each of us could have that motto tattooed on us as dive pro’s that’s what we need to remember as to how to lead. Wait till you hear how you can put some of these simple initiatives into your courses and briefings, and hear how Sea of Change can come to your aid if your dive site has an environmental issue associated with it.
Samantha Whitcraft
The Sea of Change Foundation has an amazing lineup of directors and advisors including industry legends. So today we speak with Samantha Whitcraft. Samantha is the Director of the Sea of Change Foundation. She is also the Director of Conservation & Outreach for Aggressor Adventures™. Over the past 20 years, as a marine conservation biologist, Samantha has worked from the field, lab, and office to protect the oceans’ ecosystems. Researching biodiversity, sustainable fisheries, and the illegal wildlife trade has taken her to the Amazon with National Geographic, to the Mesoamerican reef with NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, and to some of the most remote islands of the Pacific to develop citizen science and sustainable ecotourism while promoting ocean literacy.
Samantha has served on the Water Resources Advisory Commission for the South Florida Water Management District, on the Sanctuary Advisory Council of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, and the board of the New England Aquarium’s Beach Teach Program.
Samantha graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor’s in Natural Science with a concentration in marine conservation biology and earned her Master’s of Marine Affairs and Policy at the University of Miami. She has taught formally at Miami Dade College and the University of Hawaii on the subjects of environmental ethics, traditional ecological knowledge, and coral reef ecosystems. After the Gulf oil spill, she was recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA Fisheries with a national award for exceptional service in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Samantha was also one of twenty women selected for the Women’s Environmental Leaders Forum – Miami with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, principal environmental advisor to the President. She has produced award-winning short environmental films, researched and reported on the impacts of the illegal wildlife trade, and is an avid photographer and published nature writer. She is a Platinum Pro 5000 Diver.
So here we go pro’s join my interview with Samantha Whitcraft about the Sea of Change Foundation
Items In This Episode
- Sea of Change Foundation
- Sea of Change/Force Blue’s PSA – REFUSE, REDUCE, RE-USE SINGLE-USE PLASTICS
- Sea of Change/Force Blue’s PSA – CHOOSE SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD
- Sea of Change/Force Blue’s PSA – CHOOSE SAFE & SUSTAINABLE SUN PROTECTION
- Reef Rescue and Rapid Response Grant
- Sea of Change Facebook
- Sea of Change Instagram
- Samantha Whitcraft
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