Read the passage below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR
NUMBER FROM THE PASSAGE for each answer.
1 What career did Sylvia decide to follow after her first dive?
2 How far under water did she go in order to break a world record?
3 What was causing harm to everything living in the sea?
4 Where does Sylvia think we should get our fish?
SYLVIA EARLE UNDERWATER HERO
She has spent her working life studying the world's oceans Sylvia Earle is an underwater
explorer and marine biologist who was born in the USA in 1935. She became interested in
the world's oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on the beach for hours
and look at the sea, wondering what it must be like under the surface.
When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive. It was this dive that
inspired her to become an underwater explorer. Since en, she has spent more than 6,500
hours under water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made
the deepest dive ever, reaching a record-breaking depth of 381 metres.
In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-
female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater 'house'. The
research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and