Fellow of The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club, New York
From advertising
to the abyss.
The story of how a London advertising executive became one of ocean conservation's most impactful voices — and what it took to get the world to look down.
About
Richard Vevers
Richard Vevers is an ocean science communicator and Director of Room 71 at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the world's leading non-profit dedicated to ocean science and exploration. He works with leading brands to change how people see the ocean and to speed up ocean science solutions to global problems. Before ocean science, he spent a decade in London advertising agencies, then worked as an artist, gallery owner, exhibition designer and underwater photographer. He founded The Ocean Agency, invented the underwater camera behind Google's underwater Street View, and played the lead role in Chasing Coral, the Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary. His work has been featured in over 10,000 media articles and has resulted in over $200 million in funding for ocean science and conservation. He is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and is based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Richard is also an experienced diver and expedition leader. He is a Fellow of The Explorers Club, having embarked on numerous remote expeditions to take Google Street View underwater and carry out the first comprehensive global survey of the world's coral reefs. He simply loves the ocean and being underwater, especially with his wife and creative partner, Stephanie.
Richard Vevers is an ocean science communicator, founder of The Ocean Agency and Director of Room 71 at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
In the Field
Work in the water.
Two decades of fieldwork across reefs, expeditions, and production sets.
Recognition
Awards & honours.
Emmy Award Outstanding Nature Documentary
2018 Peabody Award Peabody Award Winner
2018 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, U.S. Documentary
2017 XPrize Challenge Winner Ocean innovation challenge
2019 Affiliations
Memberships & credentials.
PONANT Explorations Guest Lecturer
PONANT Explorations
Rolex Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society
Rolex / OWUSS
Association of Independent Commercial Producers, Judge
AICP
See the full career arc.
From advertising in London to The Ocean Agency to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and everything in between. Richard is behind Chasing Coral and Google's underwater Street View.