Jacques Cousteau famously said: “From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”

Think of … a shiver of hammerhead sharks at Wolf Island, Galapagos, encountering humpback whales in Tonga, extreme biodiversity in Raja Ampat, the elusive Mola Mola, dugong, or Berry’s bobtail squid …