Matthew England is Australia’s leading ocean modeller and the world’s foremost authority on the modelling of the Southern Ocean. And an ocean swimmer / surfer from way back! Matthew researches the future health of our oceans under pressures such as climate change and pollution. We also talked about the mysterious tar balls that washed up on Sydney beaches in 2024 and messages in a bottle thrown overboard finding the right people!

Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:

• Ocean Angels - MBryan
• England - 양홍원
• Stealing England - Dr Dugger
• Sapphire - Tobu

Photo from UNSW

Justine Nolan, Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW, has swum all 45 of Sydney's glorious ocean pools. Inspired by Places We Swim (have a listen back to our podcast ep with Caroline and Dillon), Justine journeyed across Sydney at the end of covid, enjoying our newfound freedoms, to explore one of Sydney's most unappreciated yet sublime features.

Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:

• Upper Harbour Highway - Sci-Clone
• Blue Harbour - EuLiLa
• Pools - Grizzly Beatz
• Sapphire - Tobu

Photo by me! (Bilgola)

Michaela Werner is free diver, who in 2023, set a new world record, becoming the first woman to swim 101 underwater laps of a 25-metre pool in an hour. Born in Slovakia, she moved to Australia at age 19 where she fell in love with freediving. Michaela can swim 200m underwater, can hold her breath for six minutes and is a qualified free-diving instructor and coach.

Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:

• Let Me Breathe (Wardub) - Rhekluse
• Breathe - INOSSI
• Breathe - LiQWYD
• hold your breath - ikkunn
• Free Dive - Cymatish
• Sapphire - Tobu

Photo from Michaela on instagram