Ocean Ramsey

Ocean Ramsey is an environmentalist.[1][2] She operates One Ocean Diving, LLC in Hawaii, a company which facilitates dives with marine life.[3] She gained international media attention for free diving with sharks, including great white sharks, to bring attention to shark conservation.[4][2][5][6] Ramsey is based in Hawaii, and has dived with 47 species of sharks around the world as of 2019.[1]

While studying tiger sharks in Oahu with a film crew, they encountered a 20 ft (6.1 m) long female great white shark, known as Deep Blue. The encounter was captured by Ramsey’s fiancé, Juan Oliphant, and the footage received worldwide media attention.[7]

While she has been praised for raising awareness of the species, she has been criticised for her actions in the footage. Marine biologist Michael Domeier, founding director of the non-profit Marine Conservation Science Institute, criticised Ramsey for appearing in the viral shark interaction video." David Shiffman, a marine conservation biologist who studies sharks, told The Washington Post: "I can't believe that 'please don't grab the 18-foot long wild predator' is something that needs to be explicitly said out loud, but here we are."[8][9]