My Octopus Teacher and Me

Craig Foster’s wife speaks about the octopus teacher, learning to swim, and eventually free diving herself.
The Making of My Octopus Teacher
The making of Academy Award winning documentary, My Octopus Teacher by Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed & Craig Foster.
A Ghost of a Shark

Rare encounters with a school of elusive smooth-hound sharks, and the over-fishing crisis shark populations are facing.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves

The world of fantasy and adventure experienced in the ocean often belies language.
Whale Medicine

Breaking down the boundaries between nature and science to allow for deeper nature immersion and better marine biology research.
Easter Egg Hunting In The Great African Seaforest

Swimming through the seaforest tracking down cuttlefish eggs, assessing predatory marks in shells, and ascertaining the species of some strange egg casing.
To Be, or Not To Be, a Landscape Photographer

My plan was to walk through those gorgeous mountain forests taking photographs. Now having abandoned the land I’m trying to take underwater landscape photos of kelp forests.
Song of the Silent Forest

Yo-Yo Ma’s visit to Cape Town as part of the Bach Project, and the performance of our song, Amphibious Soul, with Zolani Mahola at Craig’s house.