“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen”
Meet the Team
Matt Gill - Founder
Maybe the names we are assigned at birth somehow dictate our future.. Maybe it's just the environment around us that crafts us into the people we become.. who knows, but when you grow up within spitting distance of the ocean and carry a name like Gill it seems you grow up with an uncontrollable love of the sea and its inhabitants whether you like it or not.
As someone who played in the water as a child, became addicted to that play as a teenager and has since constructed his entire life around being either in or on the water at every opportunity, Matt is as close to an ocean addict as you are likely to find anywhere. Ask him and he’ll tell you that he feels much more comfortable in the ocean than on land, much more comfortable surrounded by the ocean’s vastness and immense power than a room full of people. As connected to the waters as the marine mammals he strives to protect. Quite simply, for Matt the ocean is home, and the land, well thats just a place he has to visit.
As the founder and operations director of The Ghost Seas Project, Matt drives the organisation from the front, never happier than when at sea working underwater with local species, observing and protecting them from the surface or dancing across the waves on any number of watercraft.
“The Sylvia Earle”
Every good man needs a loyal companion. Cowboys had their horses, Turner had Hooch.. For Matt the partner of choice is a Yamaha FZR1800 WaveRunner, which allows him access to both shallow and deep waters at some of the most rapid response speeds available.
Whether patrolling the island's waters for illegal fishing activity, observing and recording marine mammal numbers or simply getting out to normally unavailable dive sites, the Yamaha he named in honour of marine biologist and "Hope Spot" champion Sylvia Earle is a near daily companion, year round. Able to access the full extent of the island’s waters at a fraction of the environmental impact of a multi person motor boat, the Sylvia Earle is Matt’s preferred and most powerful weapon in the fight for the protection of our Channel Island waters,
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