TO BE AT THE FIRST UNITED NATIONS OCEAN CONFERENCE

My ocean story begins in Komodo National Park, at a dive site called Batu Balong. For three years, I had been in and out of the hospital for multiple surgeries on my right leg following a ski accident. I was crippled, in pain and utterly depressed. As life would have it, I found myself in Indonesia on a liveaboard dive trip. At 25 metres down in ripping current, sharing a reef hook with the dive guide, bug-eyed