Our Ocean: Our Livelihoods - from the navy diver to the herbal alchemist

On the second episode of the Oceans of Learning podcast series, we’re focusing on ‘Our Ocean: Our Livelihoods’ with presenter Finn van der Aar finding out how Ireland’s ocean economy supports a wide range of industries and jobs.

With a sea territory ten times our land mass, the potential for Irish people and businesses to tap into this marine resource is immense. You’ll hear the stories of four individuals who work in a range of areas from a navy diver to the renewable energy sector and food safety.

Finn speaks to Patricia Comiskey, Ocean Energy Programme Manager at the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), Joe Silke, Director, Marine Environment and Food Safety Services at the Marine Institute, Ireland’s first female navy diver, Tahlia Britton, and Tracey Ryan, herbal alchemist and Managing Director for Codex Beauty Ireland, a plant-based biotech company, who all reveal the influence of the ocean on their work and their lives.

Oceans of Learning is presented by the Marine Institute and produced by LastCastMedia.com.

To find out more, go to Marine.ie.

What is Oceans of Learning?

Oceans of Learning is the podcast series celebrating our seas and raising awareness about the importance of Ireland’s valuable marine resource.

From the ocean and climate change, to the people and their livelihoods as well as the marine economy and what lies beneath, Oceans of Learning promises to bring you on a journey to an underwater world that offers so much to our way of life and yet is under a greater threat than ever before.

Presenting by author and marine biologist, Finn van der Aar and supported by the Marine Institute. For more go to Marine.ie.

Oceans of Learning is produced by LastCastMedia.com.