Involve, Immerse, Inspire.
The aim of our outreach activities is to create ocean advocates of all ages, backgrounds, identities and abilities by connecting people to the ocean and incredible animals that live there. With many elasmobranchs free-falling into extinction territory we are working to change people's preconceived perceptions, particularly of sharks.
Ongoing Projects
Sharkademy
Sharkademy is heading into year 3. In collaboration with the wonderful MARECO we have created the UK’s first shark specialist residency for early career biologists and conservationists.
It's fully funded and targeted toward people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Allowing them to gain hands-on field experience.
We want to prove that you don't need to fly half way round the globe for sharks, or for field experience.
Read about Sharkademy 2024 in MARECO’s blog.
Sharkademy was made possible through the support of Seachangers
Wildlife On One Breath
Freediving could be seen as a skill through which to spend more time underwater with animals. That's certainly where our journey started.
It's when you’re compelled to go freediving in pursuit of nothing at all, that you realize there's something else going on.
The experience of freediving can not only help you explore more of the underwater world, it can also help you achieve a profound sense of relaxation and wellbeing.
It prompted us to create Wildlife on One Breath for the Outdoor Health Programme, a social-prescribing initiative giving opportunities for people facing mental and physical wellbeing challenges to learn about freediving and how to explore our underwater world and the creatures within it.
Pembrokeshire Freedivers
As we introduced more people to the world of freediving we found that so many friendships were forged through through damp hugs and frozen grins. We needed a club. So we started one.
Pembrokeshire Freedivers is a community club Celtic Deep CIC set up alongside Tom from Seriously Good Feeediving. It now has 300 members. We meet weekly in the pool during the Winter and in the sea during the summer.
Freediving is not an extreme sport. It's a passion to be shared.
Outdoor Partnership
Celtic Deep have teamed up with the Outdoor Partnership Swansea Bay to deliver numerous fun-filled sessions involving a combination of snorkelling, rockpooling and beach cleaning with different groups facing a range of barriers when it comes to accessing the wonders of our coastline.