OCEAN WHISPERS

Blindness took his sight, not his dream of flight—the ocean gave it back. Through this blind diver, we explore Taiwan’s underwater world from an entirely new perspective, and witness how he fulfills his dream of swimming with humpback whales.

Hereditary glaucoma slowly took his sight, and with it, his dream of flying—until diving gave that dream back in another form. People wonder: what is there for a blind man to see underwater? But what he loves is the freedom of weightlessness. All the mess and misery life throws at him on land dissolves the moment he enters the water, healed by the noise and stillness of different seas, by the changing textures and pressures of the deep. His dive buddies opened up a life that had closed in on itself—and carried him toward his dream of meeting a humpback whale.