Photo: Sophie Merkens
Susie Ferguson speaks to Renee Taylor, founder of Salt Aotearoa. Her purpose is to inspire greater connection with the ocean, by encouraging people to learn to freedive, spearfish, and to collect kaimoana. She's relatively new to the activity herself, only learning to freedive and spearfish at the age of 30. But it's had such a profound impact on her own life, that she wants to share it with others, particularly other wahine Māori. Renee Taylor says it's reconnected her with her Māoritanga, and has changed the way she sees the impacts of humans on the moana, and our taiao, our natural world. Salt Aotearoa offers opportunities for people to get in the water and learn to dive, by hosting free dive events and diving camps.
