It’s 3pm on a Monday afternoon in Haleiwa, a historic surf town located on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, and Ocean Ramsey has spent her entire day, like every other, serving as a conduit for connection between humans and sharks.
From 7am, the marine conservationist has been hosting educational dives with the apex predator. And now, she’s using a car trip back from a local reef clean-up hosted on the other side of the island as an opportunity to dial into her first interview with Vogue Australia. Following the call, Ramsey will meet with her team of marine biologists to debrief on the day’s findings, her all-consuming conservation efforts taking her well into the evening. Such a day is the norm for the tireless multi-hyphenate.
For Australians, still shocked by the tragedy of a swimmer losing his life in February after Sydney’s first fatal shark attack in