Adventure & Experience | Oceans
(Image credit: Pier Nirandara)
How do we get people to care about ocean conservation? Diving can help us explore the role of awe in protecting the planet’s beating blue heart.
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From swimming with humpback whales in the South Pacific to witnessing the frenzied feeding at South Africa’s sardine run to photographing Antarctica underwater, I’ve been privileged to experience how the power of awe can inspire conservation efforts.
“Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast,” writes Dacher Keltner, author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life and leading scientist at UC Berkeley studying the emotion. In a world of constant disconnection, we seek ways to…
