Do You Have a Fishing Vest?

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I challenge anyone to try this manoeuvre, especially if you keep getting interrupted at meetings. I don't think i've ever been truly afraid one. There was a time we were charged by an elephant and that's the closest i felt to death. Is it true that people who are explorers wear a lot of khaki vests with pockets? What do you keep in all those pockets? Ah, you got to have flashlights, ok? A trail maks, ye, you travel like sometimes. Ye, like a flares, ye, compass, things like that. Do you actually have a khaki vest, like a fishing vest? I do. But not usually wear it in the

THIS IS UPLIFTING, I PROMISE. And it might just make you switch careers. As a bookend to last week's Oceanology episode, Conservation Technologist Shah Selbe chats about saving the planet with some well-intentioned technology. Wind turbines, solar cars, and all the ways in which sensors, drones, recycled smartphones and real-time data reporting can help conserve species, spaces and communities that are threatened. Hear inspiring tales of travel, art, adventure and putting engineering to good use from a former rocket-science turned professional do-gooder.

Also discussed: crocodile astrology, fishing vests and hippo power displays.

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