Born and bred in Cape Town and being a scuba diving instructor, I have always had a deep connection to the ocean and the protection of our coastline. I am currently completing my Mphil Environmental Humanities South degree at the University of Cape Town. My work is an extension of my honours thesis where I partnered up with the University of the Western Cape to perform interdisciplinary research and collect both water samples and marine species, in an aid to test and research the effects of the marine effluent outfalls in both Camps Bay and Green Point. I completed my Honours in anthropology at UCT in 2017. After co-authoring “Desalination and seawater quality at Green Point, Cape Town: A study on the effects of marine sewage outfalls” (2017), in the South African Journal of Science, I realised the immense importance in continuing to dive deeper into this research and the significance of maintaining a study that made use of interdisciplinary research, skills and knowledge. In 2019 I attended a conference in Aarhus, Denmark titled Governing Urban Natures, where I presented my masters research on understanding how evidence has accepted, understood and employed in respect to the issues of water quality and the controversy over the impacts of the marine effluent outfalls on Cape town’s oceans. My research has fed into the SANOCEAN project by providing a humanities and interdisciplinary understanding and insights to some of the issues and concerns around the effects of the marine outfalls in Cape Town.