The sea is my second home. The ocean is central to my existence, it is where I go to exercise, to explore, to fish and feed myself. For me, the ocean is a source of energy and power. It calms my mind and recharges my body. When I’m in the water, I experience joy and contentment. I delight in the sea, I can taste the life in the water.
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Sea you in 2023 - Happy New Year!
My goal is to be filthy rich. Rich in adventures, in health, in knowledge, in laughter, in family, in friends, in love and stop along the way to take photos. All the things I want in my sphere this new year: ocean, nature, positive people around me, laughs, intentionality, and LOVE. SO MUCH LOVE because I don’t have time for anything less.
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Can’t wait to give my best in 2023 and to spend as much time as possible in and on the water!
Giving Tuesday - Ocean Lover's Edition
Give back to our oceans this Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. It’s a day that encourages people to give back in whatever ways they can. Shop My Life in Shades of Blue - Coffee Table Book and Dive Merch where profits go to Ocean Conservation.
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What happened to sea urchins in the Caribbean?
Did you know Diadema previously experienced a massive die-off throughout the Caribbean in the early 1980s?
A waterborne pathogen beginning near the Atlantic Panama Canal entrance caused history's largest recorded marine animal die-off, wiping out 95-99% of Diadema antillarum populations throughout the Caribbean.
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Weekend Trip to Dry Tortugas
I just spent an incredible 48 hours immersed in nature. CJ and I, along with 3 other couple of friends, left early on Friday morning for an adventure in the Florida Keys.
Ponce de Leon discovered the Dry Tortugas in 1513 when he caught over 100 sea turtles there. Subsequently the islands were referred to as the “Tortugas” (turtles). During the 1600s and 1700s the area around these islands was used by pirates as a base for attacking merchant shipping in the Gulf.
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Join me on International Coastal Cleanup Day (ICCD)
I joined my neighbors for a beach clean up for #CoastalCleanUp day to promote global awareness about plastic pollution, and drive positive action on behalf of the world’s oceans and waterways.
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Sustainable Fishing with Gabriella Gerbasi & Salt Life
Sat down with Salt Life to talk about sustainable fishing because it is our duty to protect the water we all enjoy. Environmental conservation and species protection ensures future generations can enjoy the water as much as we do. As a diver and spearfishingwoman, I want to see our ocean full of life for years to come.
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Join me in supporting the clean ocean movement with 4ocean
My goal is to bring awareness to conservation and empower action through art and sustainable living and .that’s why I’m stoked to be joining forces with 4ocean to help them in their mission to end the ocean plastic crisis. Their captains and crews have already recovered millions of pounds of trash and you can help pull the next one.
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The Daily Salt - My Favorite Beach Workout
‘‘Whether she’s diving, spearfishing, taking photos, or helping out with a beach cleanup, Salt Life Team member Gabriella Gerbasi spends a lot of time at the beach. Gabriella’s been scuba diving since the age of 12, and it’s been impossible to get her out of the water since.
It wasn’t until recently, however, that Gabriella ditched the scuba gear and learned to free dive. As any freediver will tell you, it’s just as important to train on dry land as it is in the water. We caught up with Gabriella to get a few pointers on how to approach a beach workout.’’
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Happy Father's Day
Happy Father’s Day! I was amazed by scuba diving, the fact that I could spend up to an hour underwater looking at squid, turtles, stingrays, colourful fish and shipwrecks sounded too good to be true. At 12 years old, I got my PADI Open Water Diver certification in the Cayman Islands so dad and I would be able to dive together around the Caribbean. I haven’t been able to get the ocean out of my head and my heart ever since.
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NEW Merch Now Available Online ♒︎ Life in Shades of Blue ♒︎ Sustainability • Conservation • Art
Life in Shades of Blue is inspired by the sea and made for all the children of the tide. It's for the sun seekers, the sea lovers and the day dreamers. For everyone with wild hair, salty skin, sun kissed souls who have a ☼summer state of mind☼ all year round while chasing a never-ending adventure. Give back to our oceans with every purchase.
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June is Ocean Month
June is Ocean Month. It’s time to shift from thinking of the ocean as a victim to seeing it as an essential part of solving global challenges. We do not have to choose between ocean protection and production. We can have both for a healthy, prosperous future.
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Happy World Oceans Day
On #WorldOceansDay, people around our blue planet 🌍 celebrate and honor the ocean, which connects us all.
The theme this year is Revitalisation: Collective Action for the Ocean, drives home the message that we need to combine forces across the ocean community—and beyond—in order to revitalise ocean health and restore (and protect) vital marine habitats.
Bahamas Adventures - The Ocean Provides
I am incredibly grateful to have been introduced to freediving and spearfishing by no other than Valentine Thomas, a freediving instructor, published chef and advocate for sustainable eating, who quit her job in London to live a simple life and to spread the word about eating responsibly and following her dreams.
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The Daily Salt - Get to Know Me Better
‘‘The Salt Life has always come naturally to one of our newest team members, Gabriella Gerbasi. The French-Canadian native and self-proclaimed “ocean child” has been diving for as long as she can remember. She first became a PADI-certified junior diver at the age of 12, and by 14, Gabriella had a full open-water certification.’’
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Sisters of the Tide
We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea. Those of us who are, we sisters & children of the tides, we are bound by sand, salt, sea and we must return to it again and again 🧜🏼♀️🌊
I love how diving and the ocean forms bonds with people. Ocean people are my people. We still like to play just like when we were kids meeting after school. We look outside in the morning and when the weather’s nice and the water is calm, we make plans to spend time outside, no phone, no distractions. Just friends, nature and stories to tell.
Read my Interview with Salt Life on Cold Water, Warm Water, and my Mermaid Diving Bucket List
Read my Interview with Salt Life on Cold Water, Warm Water, and my Mermaid Diving Bucket List
It seems with every passing year more and more people are taking up diving as a hobby, and for good reason! The ocean is absolutely breathtaking and the creatures that live below the surface are equally as fascinating. Many divers have their sights set on warmer waters such as those in Cozumel or Belize, but often forget you can also dive in colder waters.
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Join me in the Florida Spearfishing Tournament
Join me in the @floridaspearfishing tournament. An event that allows people from all over the state of #Florida to compete! Spearfish all the time like you normally do, except now when you get a fish you can enter it to win prizes.
I’ve always felt inspired by the sea women of Jeju and the Ama divers who represent the feminine strength and resilience as a self sufficient sisterhood of diving women, mothers and grandmothers. These women are treated like heroes by the people of their island because they support their families, they fish and harvest what they eat and provide in the most natural way possible.
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Talking Sustainability on Above and Below; a Salt Life Podcast
I have deep passion for conservation and sustainability. In this episode of Above and Below: a Salt Life podcast, Kieran & I discuss easy ways to live an environmentally conscious life, while protecting the ocean and its inhabitants.
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Ocean - Diving - Sustainability & Living the Salt Life
I started wearing Salt Life apparel when I first got into spearfishing and needed apparel to protect me from the sun while on my dive adventures and I officially joined the Salt Life team in February 2022.
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