Ocean Activists & Main Characters of the Film
On behalf of the ocean – the film’s unspoken central character – surfers who “speak ocean” offer insight into the ocean’s plight and paths to a solution.
Taylor Lane and the Ciggy Boards
Taylor Lane (California), Ciggy Board creator, uses the surfboards to start conversations and explore tangible solutions to better understand how to protect and restore the health of the ocean. The Ciggy Boards are the vessel, platform, and connective thread between all the ocean activists featured in the film.
Mikey February
Mikey February (South Africa), a professional surfer who increases accessibility to the ocean for kids through organizations like Sentinel Ocean Alliance, utilizes the joy of surfing as a positive tool to help change lives.
Fergal Smith
Fergal Smith (Ireland), a former professional surfer who abandoned his career to create a community-based regenerative farm to “give back” to the ocean, reveals how all our actions on land directly affect the ocean.
Easkey Britton
Easkey Britton (Ireland), a professional surfer with a PhD in Environment and Society, explains the scientific benefits of a healthy ocean for everyone, whether coastal or landlocked, and therefore why it needs protecting.
Hannah Bennett
Hannah Bennett (Fiji), a professional surfer from Suva, where increased plastic pollution defaces the gorgeous coastline, shows that prevention is better than clean-up, and there is no “away” on our interconnected planet.
Rob Machado
Rob Machado (California), a professional surfer, shaper and ocean conservation NGO founder, is a well-known surf figure who shows that individual habit change is a great first step in becoming an ocean leader.
Jack Johnson
Former professional surfer, musician and environmental activist Jack Johnson (Hawaiʻi) uses his music platform to address the plastic pollution crisis as a way to preserve our planet for future generations.
Cliff Kapono
Cliff Kapono (Hawaiʻi), a professional surfer and PhD in Chemistry, explains surfers’ biological connection to the ocean — through both science and indigenous knowledge — and how we can reconnect with the sea.
Noah Wegrich
Kahi Pacarro
Tevita Gukilau
Chris Hines & Steve England
Chris Hines and Steve England, founders of Surfers Against Sewage (United Kingdom), helped build a successful grassroots campaign in the 1990s, ultimately leading to laws prohibiting the discharge of untreated sewage into the ocean.
Andrea Kabwasa
Legend & Mana Chandler
Rob Kelly
Ryan Harris
Ryan Harris (California), founder of EcoByRy, is the first surfboard shaper in the world to run a zero-waste surfboard production facility. He is a leader in eco-production and business methods within the surf industry.