For millennials, humans have maintained a very special bound with the sea, feeding many legends and myths. From Ulysses to Christopher Columbus and Jacques Cousteau, many are the great men who have explored our blue planet through their adventures. And yet, the ocean, rough and merciless, has led humans to fear it more than they admire it. For the past decades, our species has tried to tame the ocean, driven by a deep misunderstanding of its dynamic and ecosystems, but also by the misled thought that such an immense environment cannot be impacted by our activities.

But here we are, our seas overfished, polluted, and getting dangerously warmer. Even though we start to realize the importance of marine ecosystems for our planet’s balance, human activities continue to slowly kill our oceans and impact life from the sea surface to the deepest seas. 

To fight this crisis, it is primordial that we reconnect with our oceans and that we fall back in love with its inhabitants, once source of so many wonders for our cultures. Through the following series of photos, I want to show that it exists a world where humans and marine species can coexist.