In­ter­na­tional: Wa­ter People - a couple’s jour­ney to live from the sea

After fall­ing in love on the boat in Scot­land Tim and Mitch set out for an ad­ven­ture on the high seas. Their 40-year-old sail­boat, retro-fit­ted for off-grid liv­ing, offered an ex­cit­ing life al­tern­at­ive for this ocean-minded duo. Quickly teach­ing them­selves to sail, they hopped along the coast of Europe, work­ing as di­gital nomads along the way, and crossed the At­lantic Ocean this year.

Des­pite for­ging on this path of in­creas­ing in­de­pend­ence, they’ve come to real­ise that al­most everything they eat from the local is­land su­per­mar­kets is im­por­ted and as­so­ci­ated with a huge en­vir­on­mental foot­print. They’re even eat­ing fish from a tin des­pite there be­ing an ap­par­ent abund­ance of life in the wa­ters be­neath the boat.

This is an up­lift­ing ad­ven­ture based on a quest to learn lost skills. Is it still pos­sible to live from our local sur­round­ings? And can it be done sus­tain­ably?

Sail­ing north from Gren­ada Tim and Mitch are in­tro­duced to the un­der­wa­ter world by an ex­pert free­d­ive in­structor. In The Ba­hamas the couple meet up with an ex­pert ocean for­ager to learn how to hunt safely and se­lect­ively us­ing a pole spear. Renowned mar­ine sci­ent­ists provide in­sight as to how sus­tain­able this all is. Ex­perts of­fer a global con­text and out­line the value of be­ing con­scious in our food choices.

It is a stan­dalone film, and will be sup­ple­men­ted with so­cial me­dia con­tent. You­Tube videos and so­cial me­dia posts will build en­gage­ment for the dur­a­tion of the pro­ject which cul­min­ates in the film re­lease.

Dec. 2021: We’re on our way to The Ba­hamas, on a quest to learn lost skills, to learn to hunt and for­age, and to see if there’s a sus­tain­able way to do it!

While we work to­wards a full 'film' we're go­ing to bring you 'Mak­ing Of' videos on You­Tube. Stay tuned for the first epis­ode and a livestream Q&A com­ing soon!