Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher’’s Extraordinary World

CRAIG FOSTER is one of the world’s leading natural history filmmakers and co-founder of the Sea Change Project. His film My Octopus Teacher follows the story of his year with a wild octopus, at the same time honoring his pact to dive every day for a year. Through this regular intensive immersion, he has uncovered a plethora of new animal behaviors and species, one of which is a shrimp that has been named after him: Heteromysis Fosteri.

ROSS FRYLINCK is a founding director of the Sea Change Trust. He is a media and events entrepreneur, curator, and journalist. He is a co-founder of the Wavescape Festival, which has been running for 15 years as the leading ocean culture and conservation event in South Africa, and chairman of Autonomy Paris, a new urban mobility solutions event in partnership with the City of Paris. Ross is a published children’s book author and the former commissioning editor at Cambridge University Press.