TIME & Top Oceanographer In Bermuda Waters
Dr. Sylvia Earle, a famed American oceanographer with the nickname “Her Deepness”, is in the Bermuda area this week along with a journalist from TIME Magazine.
Dr Earle is considered one of the best of the genre; she is a former Chief Scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, holds the women’s record for a solo dive in a deep submersible (3280 feet, 1000m), led the Google Ocean Advisory Council for the “Ocean in Google Earth” and has written numerous books and papers and won numerous awards.
In 1970, Dr Earle broke a gender barrier by leading the first ever team of women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in the Virgin Islands. She and four other women dived 50 feet below the surface to the small structure they would call home for the next two weeks. Now 75-years-old, Dr Earle shows no signs of slowing down, and continues to travel worldwide exploring the ocean’s depths.
Bryan Walsh, an environmental columnist at TIME magazine, is also in the Bermuda area with Dr Earle, where they will be diving in the Sargasso Sea.
Mr Walsh wrote on TIME’s website that the Sargasso is “the vast gyre of in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that is home to the sargassum, the free-floating seaweed that is a floating nursery for aquatic species like eels.Officials and scientists in Bermuda are pushing to make the Sargasso Sea the first protected area on the open seas. Given that most of the ocean is beyond the control of any single nation, we’ll need to forge new legal strategies if we’re going to protect the ocean where it really needs the help.”
Dr Earle has previously lectured in Bermuda.
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