Very few humans get to witness the wonders of our marine biome, let alone spend minutes swimming around in its splendour on a single breath. But it’s through this demanding pursuit that Julia Wheeler hopes to motivate people to protect this precious ecological community. “My ambition has always been to inspire and be a voice for the environment,” she says.
Julia’s freediving has taken her to Hawaii and Honduras for competitions and the Caribbean for training. She’s dived with Greenpeace in the Great Australian Bight, to highlight what saying yes to oil drilling in the region would destroy, and swam with humpback whales in Tahiti – these gentle giants mimicking her movements to play and communicate.
For World Ocean Day 2020, the 35-year-old photographer and documentary filmmaker directed and edited the short film to raise
