Join Salon Hecate and Jonathan Ball Publishers to celebrate Deep Blue: Why We Love the Sea by Veruska De Vita!

De Vita will be in conversation with Melissa Volker, author and surfer, and Helen Moffett at the event.

Deep Blue is a love letter to the sea, exploring humans’ deep connection with it and the bliss of swimming, diving, dipping and simply being in salt water.

De Vita, a learner free diver and open-water swimmer, delves into why the ocean calls to us.

Along the way she talks to those who find healing and wellness in swimming groups and cold-water immersion, scientists who study complex marine environments, elite athletes who swim super-human distances along our coasts and free divers who plumb the depths with one breath.

Water is primordial. It gives life. It represents hope and renewal. This book is not only for sea worshippers. It promises to inspire everyone to jump with joy into the waves – and offers reflections on our intimate relationship with the sea, which supports life on earth and requests that we respect it.

‘… there is a quiet here that doesn’t exist on land, a fluid suspension that reminds me that humans were never meant to be so rigid, so fixed in place. In the sea, we are both vulnerable and free …’

Event details

Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Venue: Noordhoek Art Point gallery, 16 Noordhoek Main Rd, Sunnydale, Cape Town
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RSVP: info@noordhoekartpoint.co.za

Categories Non-fiction South Africa

Tags Book events Book launches Cape Town Deep Blue Helen Moffett Jonathan Ball Publishers Melissa Volker Salon Hecate