Get to know our Ambassador of the Month Lukas Müller
At the age of three, a young boy noticed a dark, elongated shape entering the calm bay of Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands. With his hands firmly gripping the railing, he watched his father run down the rocky steps, mask and fins tucked under his arms, toward the mysterious creature, while the other beachgoers frantically exited the water.
Today, 30 years later, Lukas has the prvilege to spot these enigmatic shapes in the ocean for a living. Lukas is a marine biologist, freediving instructor, and expedition guide who's utterly fascinated by sharks.
Over the past decade, he had the opportunity to learn from and work with some of the world's leading shark researchers, freedivers, and adventurers. He's contributed to research projects on endangered sharks in remote locations and have freedived with remarkable species such as white sharks, tiger sharks, and great hammerheads.
During these expeditions, Lukas often looked around at the talented, ocean-loving individuals around him and wondered: “What drives us to chase the mysteries of these marine predators? The smell of salt and neoprene, blisters on our feet, seasickness looming on the horizon.”
Many years after witnessing his father approach a blue shark in that Balearic Bay, he returned to the same location. While freediving in the waters of his childhood, everything fell into place. He came to realise that we are all just primates, shaped by our families, friends, environment, and experiences. For those of us for whom the arch of universe had carved out a defining encounter with the ocean, we are drawn to it forever. All so different, yet fundamentally the same. We’re basically water monkeys.
