Some people have said to me 'You know, you're quite obsessed.'
And I say 'Yes, I am', and it's absolutely fine
because I could be obsessed with buying shoes.
Some people might call it an addiction.
But for me it's a good addiction.
I always say to people
'Diving is probably a better way to get high than smoking marijuana.'
Being underwater is amazing.
It's another world where you can just do anything.
A lot of peple say, 'Oh you're such a mermaid.'
And I never see myself like that at all.
I'm just a human trying to really find my way around water
and be in it and really appreciate it.
We've had this incredible love affair with the wild
for hundreds of thousands of years.
And suddenly this guillotine has come
and just severed this bonds with everything
that we've been so closely connected to for all this time.
People are struggling,
feeling anxious and awful,
a bit shattered by the world.
We've got so many pressures that we're just not designed to deal with,
that you've got this... feels like a pressure cooker.
It feels like land has become so cluttered with so much stuff
like cellphones and cars and appointments and demands.
And then when you're in the water it's like, bye bye - I'm gone.
And it really is one of the few places I believe
that we can really get away from everything.
You dip into that icy water again and again
and it cleans you off and you start to feel real again.
It's an incredible feeling.
There is something about the ocean that is so incredibly powerful.
It's more powerful than anything on earth.
And so unbelievably unpredictable.
Clear the one day - absolutely no visibility the next day.
Flat and calm - and then giant waves.
And you just go in every day and experience all these
levels of wildness.
It's just this great, enormous tidal wave
of unfolding mystery.
And there is beauty in that.
The more I learn from the kelp forest
the more I realise just how little I know
and how great that mystery is.
It's not just under water... it's under wonder
because it is completely wonderous.
You realise that there is this entire world
that you have never experienced before.
What looked like nothing before,
there can be 20 000 animals living in that tiny space.
They might be small, they might be living in tiny little holes.
They might be living on top of each other.
They might be living inside each other.
It's such an incredible feeling.
Because suddenly you've got access
to these other animals lives.
And they are so incredible and so entertaining that
they make our most extraordinary science fiction
seem dull in comparison.
When you first get in the water with a whale shark
and there is this huge animal in the water with you,
you don't know whether to be afraid of it or excited by it.
One can't explain it - the feeling of seeing one
and being in the water with one.
Such gentle giant creatures.
They don't worry about you, you don't worry about them.
You're just sharing the ocean with them.
You're the tiny person next to this massive creature.
Quite overwhelming every time I go visit them.
There is something special about being underwater.
When you're under the water
I can concentrate and enjoy what's going on around me.
As a sufferer of depression and anxiety
being underwater is the best way to manage it.
Feeling the pressure off you.
Being able to float... it just feels good.
It's just a feeling that can't be described.
The best de-stress ever.
There is something so immersive about the ocean
not just physically, but mentally as well.
I think what it's teaching me is that
happiness is actually about just taking what you can in the moment, right now.
You can either choose to get caught up in all of that
or you can just float a little bit.
It is a very very real, very powerful, in your face, extraordinary experience.
And it jolts you back to being real
and feeling alive and feeling authentic.
That is the power here, the power of the wild...
it brings forth the authentic self.
You glimpse something else...
a strange, mysterious perfection
that is a pure mirror of our existence.
I can honestly say that this kelp forest
has completely transformed my life.
I can't imagine living without it and the creatures in it.
Having a relationship with that environment...
that's more than I can ask for... that is just such a privilege actually.
When I'm 950 000 years old
I'm probably going to be one of those nice portly ladies
who wear those floral caps
and will probably swim every day.
I'll just be like the happiest little seal in the world.
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