Founder of I AM WATER Ocean Conservation & AGULHAS Sustainable Ocean Equipment, Hanli is a multiple freediving record holder, coach and social entrepreneur. Growing up on a horse farm in rural South Africa, her love of nature and the human need for wilderness were instilled at an early age. Since retiring from competitive freediving she is active as a sought-after high-performance coach having worked with professional sportsmen and women from cyclists to big wave surfers, to global corporations. Currently, her focus is on fostering ocean conservation through human experience, and reconnecting people with nature through her innovative I AM WATER Ocean Conservation programs which she founded in 2010. Her personal quest of freediving with marine megafauna has resulted in numerous exhibitions, films, and articles about the human/animal connection. She also founded OCEAN TRAVEL as a way to offer sustainable big-animal interactions in pristine locations. An Ashoka Fellow, Hanli has been named one of Conde Nast Travellers Top 50 Travellers of our Time.

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