I became fascinated with freediving last year while reporting on Deja Blue, the international freediving competition held in Grand Cayman each year by Performance Freediving International (PFI), the oldest freediving training agency in North America.

A reoccurring thought occupies my mind when I’m walking through the fish market. There are dead sharks to the left of me, and their fins are separated and sitting in piles around me. Maggots have begun to crawl out of the sewers and blood is everywhere.

Reef-World has embarked on a journey to develop mutually beneficial tourism industry partnerships that drive sustainable value chains by creating tangible outcomes for the ocean, communities and the economy through the Green Fins initiative.

Matt Carter is the leading technical diving maritime archaeologist in Australasia, an International Fellow of the Explorers Club and a presenter on the TV series ‘Coast: New Zealand’. He is passionate about furthering the links between archaeological research and technical diving.