Projects
Putting convictions into practice.
My life in marine tourism has shown me how closely livelihoods, coastal communities and healthy seas depend on one another. These projects bring together what I’ve learned and what I believe we can do better.
Here is the work I’m helping develop, the ideas behind it, and how you can support it.
Venezuela and the Caribbean
Op Caribe
In development
Op Caribe is the IADP project I’ve taken on here in the region, and a central reason for establishing a base in Caracas. It brings together my experience in diving operations, marine conservation and tourism development.
My work in Sudan taught me how closely marine protection, practical skills and local opportunities are connected. Here, I want to apply those lessons while listening to the people who know this coastline and depend on it.
The aim is to help marine tourism develop with local knowledge, viable businesses and environmental responsibility at its foundations. I’ll share the groundwork, challenges and decisions as the project takes shape.
An independent collective voice
IADP
I helped establish the International Association of Dive Professionals with others because I believe the people who earn their living in diving need a stronger collective voice.
The association’s work concerns professional recognition, ethical conduct, practical support and the future of our industry. Helping it grow is one of my strongest commitments.
IADP is an independent nonprofit based in Brussels. Your contribution supports the association and its work.
Professional skills for living oceans
Go Blue
Professional divers spend their working lives in the marine environment. Their skills, observations and experience can make a valuable contribution to protecting it.
Through IADP’s Go Blue initiative, I want to help connect that professional capacity with conservation needs and responsible marine tourism.
Op Caribe sits within that wider effort. The ambition is practical cooperation: bringing people and knowledge together to develop workable responses to the challenges facing our seas.
All three donation buttons use IADP’s current general donation link. Donations go to the International Association of Dive Professionals; this link does not earmark a contribution for an individual project.
Responsible entrepreneurship
The next Ocean Roamers
I founded Ocean Roamers in 2003. Its next chapter brings together the experience gained since then and a clearer conviction about the kind of company I want to build.
The goal is a commercially viable business that takes responsibility for its effects on people, communities and the marine environment. Consultancy, management and project development put those principles to work—and provide an income that helps make my wider commitments sustainable.
I want like-minded people to have a part in that development: questioning ideas, contributing experience and helping shape the direction. Here, I share that journey in my own voice. The company website presents our services, experience and commercial work.
