Moksha team

Chris Bone - Project Manager & Skipper

Chris is a yacht skipper and has spent many years as an environmental activist.  Chris is a founding Trustee and CEO of OceansWatch International. He has organised and led OceansWatch projects for the last 2 years in Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Papa New Guinea.  Chris hopes his life will reflect his signature file….. “ There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less that the one you are capable of living” Nelson Mandela.

Irene Llabres Pohl - Marine Projects Coordinator

Irene llabres Pohl has a BSc in Environmental Sciences and an MSc in Oceanography. Irene has field experience in the Bahamas, Australia, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea and has worked for UNEP and The Nature Conservancy. Irene worked as Team Scientist for OceansWatch in 2008, and has joined OceansWatch in a full-time capacity this year.

Emily Long - Team Scientist

Emily has a BSc Hons in Environmental Geoscience from the University of Edinburgh. She conducted her dissertation research into the riverine impacts of coral reefs in Honduras in the Caribbean in conjunction with Operation Wallacea.  She has also been involved in other Marine Conservation Projects around the world.  She is a qualified PADI rescue diver and is keen to preserve to worlds reefs.  Emily loves diving and wishes to continue in marine conservation to preserve the unique ecosystems that exist.

Katherine Rainone - First Mate/Diver

Katherine has been sailing all her life and has worked extensively as a sailing instructor.  She has a degree in economics and has spent the last year volunteering for OceansWatch in the office and as part of the team that undertook the marketing trip in Magic Roundabout down the coast of Queensland.

Tristan Kiddie is the muscles in the team.

Tristan has extensive sailing and superyacht experience and will help Chris manage our new lead yacht.