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STORIES FROM ABOVE & BELOW THE SURFACE

Ocean Threads

STORIES FROM ABOVE & BELOW THE SURFACE

Ocean Threads

Women Who Make Waves: Shannon O’Brien, Founder of Bright Buoy Diving - Salinity Swimwear
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Women Who Make Waves
Mar 17, 2026

Women Who Make Waves: Shannon O’Brien, Founder of Bright Buoy Diving

From her first nervous shark dive to founding Bright Buoy Diving in Kailua, Hawaiʻi, Shannon O’Brien shares how she built confidence in the ocean and created innovative, women-focused freediving gear....
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Women Who Make Waves: Malwina Maguire Sailing the World on Alivo - Salinity Swimwear
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Women Who Make Waves
Oct 28, 2025

Women Who Make Waves: Malwina Maguire Sailing the World on Alivo

Malwina Maguire is taking on her biggest adventure yet by sailing the world!  Her and her husband are currently living aboard their 1977 Searaker 50 sailboat, Alivo, which they bought...
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Women Who Make Waves: Liberty Boyd, Sea Turtle Marine Biologist - Salinity Swimwear
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Women Who Make Waves
Aug 12, 2025

Women Who Make Waves: Liberty Boyd, Sea Turtle Marine Biologist

From a young age, Liberty Boyd was drawn to the ocean, the reef was just offshore from her Florida hometown which became her first underwater classroom. Filled with curiosity, fish,...
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Women Who Make Waves: Dr. Katy Ayres of Shark Watch - Salinity Swimwear
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Women Who Make Waves
Jul 20, 2025

Women Who Make Waves: Dr. Katy Ayres of Shark Watch

She’s a marine scientist through and through, with a focus on studying shark aggregations within marine protected areas in Baja California Sur. She also remotely analyzes shark movement data for...
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Women Who Make Waves: Carlee Jackson Shark Science & Storytelling - Salinity Swimwear
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Women Who Make Waves
Jun 10, 2025

Women Who Make Waves: Carlee Jackson Shark Science & Storytelling

Carlee is one of those people wearing about a million hats a Jill of all trades. She’s a marine biologist specializing in the effects of tourism on sharks, an environmental...
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Women Who Make Waves: Lindsey Smith of Acuarela Swimwear - Salinity Swimwear
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Women Who Make Waves
May 12, 2025

Women Who Make Waves: Lindsey Smith of Acuarela Swimwear

Lindsey Smith’s handmade bikinis have become iconic on Baja beaches and beyond. What started as a DIY project for a broke surf bum has grown into Acuarela Swimwear—a sustainable, made-to-order...
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Women Who Make Waves: Issy Von Zastrow From Kiteboarding to Watercolor - Salinity Swimwear
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Women Who Make Waves
Apr 21, 2025

Women Who Make Waves: Issy Von Zastrow From Kiteboarding to Watercolor

A former world-class kiteboarder and now a full-time watercolor artist, Issy has spent most of her life connected to the ocean. Whether she’s out surfing her local break or painting...
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Before You Quit Scuba Diving: Why It’s Worth Pushing Through - Salinity Swimwear
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Scuba Diving
Mar 11, 2025

Before You Quit Scuba Diving: Why It’s Worth Pushing Through

Fear is powerful. It’s your brain’s way of keeping you safe, whispering (or shouting), This isn’t normal. This could be dangerous. Turn back now. Fear wants to protect us, and sometimes, that’s...
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Healing the Deep: How Soul Retrievals Helped Me - Salinity Swimwear
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Nov 26, 2024

Healing the Deep: How Soul Retrievals Helped Me

As a scuba diver, I’ve faced my share of trauma in and out of the water. I have suffered from depression and anxiety in varies levels at different points of...
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The Origin Story of Salinity Swimwear - Salinity Swimwear
Baja California Sur
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Nov 1, 2024

The Origin Story of Oceza Swimwear

The ocean has a way of pulling people in, but for me, it wasn’t an immediate love affair. Growing up, I wasn’t near the sea, and though I enjoyed the...
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Diving into inspiration - Salinity Swimwear
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Scuba Diving
Jan 16, 2023

Diving into inspiration

I have always been inspired by the world around us. I love to create natural patterns in my jewelry that resemble the texture of a tree or the surface of...
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