A Sea Change is Coming
In the laid-back village of Sodwana on the far north-eastern Elephant Coast, where, in a sense, the beach and the sea are the meaning of life, I meet a man with a dream to equip needy children of the area to be champions of nature.
Peter Jacobs, who has been diving in Sodwana Bay since the late 1980s, and is perhaps more at home in the ocean than on dry land, runs a community-outreach programme teaching local youngsters about conservation and the natural wonders of their region.
Life, he says, is grim for many children there and they often roam the streets aimlessly. “Some have never even been to the beach, so we take them there to have fun. We
