Hanli Prinsloo

Hanli is a multiple freediving record holder, coach and social entrepreneur. Growing up on a horse farm in rural South Africa her love of nature and the human need for wilderness were instilled at an early age.

Since retiring from competitive freediving she is active as a sought-after high performance coach having worked with professional sportsmen and women from cyclists to big wave surfers, to global corporations. Currently her focus is on fostering ocean conservation through human experience, reconnecting people with nature through the innovative I AM WATER Ocean Conservation programs, having founded the organisation in 2010. Her personal quest of freediving with marine megafauna has resulted in numerous exhibitions, films and articles about the human/animal connection as well as founding OCEAN TRAVEL as a way to offer sustainable big animal interactions in pristine locations.

She is an acclaimed keynote speaker has been named one of Conde Nast Travellers Top 50 Travellers of our Time and is an Ashoka Fellow. In 2021 Hanli & her partner Peter launched AGULHAS, the first ever sustainable freediving brand. Hanli lives in Cape Town with Peter, her two small children, rescue dog and four chickens.