Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative
Live Talk
Sylvia Earle and Titouan Bernicot
As part of Rolex’s Oceans moment, we invite you to join Sylvia Earle and Titouan Bernicot, founders of Mission Blue and Coral Gardeners respectively, both Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative Partners, in conversation with Helen Czerski on the health of our oceans and the inspiring work being done to save them.
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Sylvia Earle
Marine biologist and founder of mission blue
Titouan Bernicot
founder and CEO of Coral Gardeners
Helen Czerski
Physicist and oceanographer
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Marine biologist Sylvia Earle, a Rolex Testimonee since 1982, has been a pioneer of ocean exploration for more than five decades. Her mission has always been to explore, study and protect the planet's oceans.
In 2009, she founded her initiative, Mission Blue. By identifying areas of particularly significant marine biodiversity called Hope Spots and advocating for their protection, Mission Blue are igniting public support to safeguard our oceans.
As one of the longstanding partners of the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, Rolex supports Mission Blue’s goal to help protect 30 per cent of the world’s seas by 2030.
Titouan Bernicot is the founder and CEO of Coral Gardeners, a Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative partner since 2022. The collective of young ocean advocates has one mission: save the reefs.
Since 2017, Bernicot and Coral Gardeners have planted over 100,000 corals, with 10 nursery sites across French Polynesia and Fiji growing approximately 26,000 new corals for planting.
Coral Gardeners have the largest social media presence of any reef conservation company, with over half a million followers on their Instagram account. Their stunning imagery and informative videos have reached over 200 million people in just over five years, and are geared towards a young audience, looking to the future of conservation, and hoping to spark passions around ocean protection.
First and foremost a physicist and oceanographer, Dr Helen Czerski is also an award-winning television broadcaster and writer, and was one of the ten jurors of the 2023 Rolex Awards for Enterprise.
As well as conducting extensive research, Czerski presents documentaries on physics and ocean-related topics for the BBC, and her column “Everyday Physics” regularly appears in the Wall Street Journal, while her award-winning first book, Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life (2016), has been translated into 14 languages.
In 2018, Czerski won the Institute of Physics Gold Medal (William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize) for her work championing physics to millions worldwide.