Blue health: How the sea benefits physical and mental wellbeing

By David Gallardo-Pujol, Jordi Renom Pinsach and Laura Viñals Vilà

Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in its waters and felt that time stood still, that the noise and chatter of the world faded away to a distant whisper, or you have marvelled as the sun slid gently beneath its horizon.

In these moments, we often feel a