ot of my time and work around water -- both from above and, more importantly to me personally, from underneath. I was in Puerto Rico for a few days and spent all of my very limited free time there in the warm ocean waters that were a major contrast to the freezing waters in South Africa, where I live. It was amazing to see how different the life and ecosystems were from the water I was so familiar with. Being around water has always had a hypnotizing effect on me, I see it and become overwhelmed with the need to be under it immediately. And once I’m in, I can stay in for hours entertaining myself, getting lost in feeling as if I were a child experiencing it for the first time.” – Charlie Shoemaker