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Nicole Holman | Ocean Storyteller

@nicole.holmann

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💫 Nat Geo Explorer @natgeosociety
🌊 Camera Girl & Expedition Lead
📸 Science, Conservation, Underwater
🤿 Freediver | rEvo CCR
🐋 @sealavieexpeditions

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Mo’orea was a week of whales and rainbows. Have gone through some of the videos from the week over 100 times by now and they still put a smile on my face every time. A week was way too short though. Stay tuned for season 2 💙

On tour with @sealavieexpeditions and @aimehoescapes

With the loveliest team @nicole.holmann @gooodonyaa @van_heppner @anaboppre_ @philboppre @tdeg02

#moorea #frenchpolynesia #rainbows

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Just some humpbacks having a chat with a pod of pilot whales

On tour with @sealavieexpeditions and @aimehoescapes

With the best team @nicole.holmann @gooodonyaa @van_heppner @anaboppre_ @philboppre @tdeg02

#moorea #humpbackwhale #pilotwhales

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september was full of time well spent 🌀

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By staying silent, we risk protecting the wrong people.

We need to stand together to create a safe, respectful, and welcoming environment across the ocean tourism and expedition industry, where everyone feels comfortable and safe, whether travelling solo or as a couple, experienced or just starting out.

No one should have to navigate this industry with fear or uncertainty about their safety.

Let’s stand together, speak up, and make a change. The ocean should unite us, never make us feel unsafe.
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#openthefloodgates @karmaisaroundthekorner

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Right time, right place, right people 💙

Some times the ocean just delivers magic in buckets. The pilot whales weren’t enough so a humpback decided to spy hop right in front of the group.

On tour with @sealavieexpeditions and @aimehoescapes

With the best team @nicole.holmann @gooodonyaa @van_heppner @anaboppre_ @philboppre @tdeg02

#whale #humpbackwhale #oceansafari

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With everything currently coming to light in the freediving and ocean safari community, I feel it’s important to speak up.
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#safeenvironment #openthefloodgates #diverjanedoe #tellthem #0tolerance

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I’m starting a new photography project celebrating women in the maritime industry along Scotland’s North East coastline.

Women make up fewer than 20% of the maritime workforce, but that’s changing, and the women already working in this industry deserve to be seen. Through portraits and personal stories, I want to show the people behind the work and inspire younger generations to connect with their coastal heritage and consider a future within the industry.

Who am I looking for?
Women working in any maritime role, from fishing, harbours and shipping to boat building, rescue, research, offshore, tourism, conservation and beyond. If you have a story to share, I’d love to hear it.

If you know anyone you'd think would be interested, please share this post or tag them below.

Get in touch via - rosea.create@gmail.com

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A little overdue summer photo dump. A bit of everything, and nothing in particular. Just some people I love and days I wouldn’t mind living all over again

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Veryyyy nice

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I remember reading the “Talk Like TED” book 12 years ago because I wanted to glean every insight possible about public speaking. And I wanted to be on that stage one day.

Now, I talk in two weeks for @tedxvictoria.ca. I can’t disclose what it’s about 😈 but I can say that it’s a love letter to my community and the wellspring of inspiration of a place I call home and @surfrider_canada

I’ve loved public speaking since I was a kid. The first speech I did competitively was on schizophrenia when I was in grade 7, and I lost to someone who did theirs on keychains 🫠 It taught me a valuable lesson that’s stayed with me: I’m driven to speak about hard topics, and for it to land, delivery is everything. My speaking coach @iamshanehewitt said: people may not remember every single thing you said, but they’ll remember how you made them feel.

So I’ve made it my mission to communicate about the environment and climate in a way that’s accessible, solutions oriented, fun, compelling, silly, self deprecating because I’m far from fcking perfect, and inclusive. And I get to put everything I’ve learned so far on this mission into this talk.

I wanted to make this post to say thank you to everyone who has helped me get here to do one of the things that makes me feel most alive and in service to this world. Our success is a blossom grown from the hands, hearts and minds of others who contribute to making our dreams a reality.

Thanks to my mum @jllwoodbury, my late father Michael Poole, my brother Clay, Krysten & all my family @clayduc
My closest friends who lift me up and inspire me constantly, I’ll tag you in the images because there so many of you lol
@surfrider_canada - all volunteers, staff & board
@tlaoquiaht.tribal.parks
@cedarwoodcovetofino
@lucasjohnharris
@clayoquot.action
My TEDx coach @yyjkurt
@pete.clarkson
@bryannabradleyphotography for taking these photos for the talk, they are perfect and @tourismtofino for making this possible
@nicole.holmann one of my bffs who took most of the other photos & told me to go harder with speaking this year
My beloved @jessefield2478
@districtoftofino @districtofucluelet
@gordjohnsndp

📸 @bryannabradleyphotography

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Crazy to think I met you on a dance floor only a couple of months ago...

My world’s been a whole lot more colourful since I found you🌈❤️

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here and there and everywhere !

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