The start
A goal set at fourteen.
I fell in love with the ocean when I was very young. At fourteen I decided I would study marine science, and from then on that was the goal.
Laura Garcia
Marine scientist and founder of Ethos Origen.
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The work
Ten years in the water.
A scholarship took me across the world to study it. Since then I have volunteered with conservation organisations, worked with several more, and taken every chance I could to work in the ocean and help protect it. That adds up to ten years of ocean experience.
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The gap
Deep knowledge, few tools around it.
Along the way I kept meeting guides who know their water deeply but have had few ways to turn that knowledge into a professional operation. Many figure it out on their own: asking the people around them, learning by trial, sometimes taking years to get where they want to be.
Why I built Blue Compass.
Diving, first aid and rescue qualifications matter, and many guides hold several. What I could not find was anything that ties those qualifications together into what it takes to run a safe, sustainable, professional operation.
Scientists and people changing careers often meet the same gap from the other side: they bring knowledge and care, and arrive without the operational tools the work needs.
That is why I created Ethos Origen and Blue Compass: to give the people in this industry the structure and tools to build on what they already know.