New York jeweller Tiffany & Co. is digging deep to help save our underwater treasure. GeorGina Safe joins actor Sarah Ellen to find out why
AS A 13-YEAR-OLD I would disappear for eight or nine hours into the water,” says Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg. “Suddenly the world was transformed, and instead of birds and trees you’d see fantastical fish whizzing by amid corals so strange and beautiful. It was like being an astronaut immersed in another dimension of magical creatures.”
Snorkelling off Lizard Island with Hoegh-Guldberg, who is professor of marine science at The University of Queensland, I know exactly what he means. As we hover several metres above a giant clam in the cerulean sea, I watch it open and clench its crimped pie-crust lips, blowing bubbles like smoke rings, as iridescent damselfish dart gamely in and out of its fluted shell. While the fish have a shorter lifespan, the clam has been peacefully fastened to its home on the Great Barrier Reef for the best part of 100 years, enduring two world wars, several royal weddings and countless changes of government, not to mention the mass coral bleachings of 2016 and 2017 as part of what is now the greatest challenge to its and our existence, global warming.
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