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North Pacific, One Year On

October 12, 2020

Siri’s lifelong love for the ocean has taken her around the world, deep-diving for answers and always surfacing with stories. Led by curiosity and a sense of adventure, her trip to the North Pacific gyre in 2018 confirmed her belief in listening to everyone and learning from everything. It allowed her to investigate, to be able to learn, to be able to act.

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