Helen Scales: What The Wild Sea Can Be

Time and date

Wednesday 16 July 2025

5:00 pm

Location

Bantry Library

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No matter where we live, ‘we are all ocean people’, Helen Scales observes in What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean, her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning with its fascinating deep history, Helen links past to present to show how prehistoric ocean ecology holds lessons for the ocean of today.  

Offering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas, Helen insists we need more ethical and sustainable fisheries and must prevent the other existential threat of deep-sea mining. Inspiring us all to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves, she urges us to fight for the better future that still exists for the ocean. 

Admission: Free

In elegant, evocative prose, author and marine biologist Helen Scales takes us into the realms of animals that epitomize current increasingly challenging conditions, from emperor penguins to sharks and orcas. Yet despite these threats, many hopeful signs remain, in the form of highly protected reserves, the regeneration of seagrass meadows and giant kelp forests and efforts to protect coral reefs.  

‘Urgent, exhilarating and marvellously researched and written, it is necessary reading for anybody who cares about the future of the planet.’ James Bradley

Writer

Dr Helen Scales

Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, acclaimed author and broadcaster who explores the wonders and plight of the oceans and the living planet. Her books, including The Brilliant Abyss...

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