{"id":71688,"date":"2025-05-10T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/the-woman-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-the-deep-sea-in-fiji"},"modified":"2025-05-10T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:30:38","slug":"the-woman-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-the-deep-sea-in-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71688","title":{"rendered":"The woman unlocking the mysteries of the deep sea in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicknamed \u2018Moana\u2019, Charlene Erasito is the only female Pacific Islander on the expedition to document unexplored parts of the ocean<\/p>\n<p>On the island of Rotuma in Fiji, Christmas is a time of joy, a celebration bursting with song, dance and laughter. Charlene Erasito remembers watching the festivities there when she was a child, captivated as people paraded through the village for \u201cfara,\u201d a local Christmas celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Erasito never imagined that decades later, she would return to the same shores, no longer as a spectator but as a scientist. Erasito, now 30 years old, is the only female Pacific Islander aboard an ambitious expedition seeking to document unexplored ocean ecosystems in Fijian waters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/the-woman-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-the-deep-sea-in-fiji\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicknamed \u2018Moana\u2019, Charlene Erasito is the only female Pacific Islander on the expedition to document unexplored parts of the oceanOn the island of Rotuma in Fiji, Christmas is a time of joy, a celebration bursting with song, dance and laughter. Charle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,467,874,280,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-oceans","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga","category-tuvalu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71689,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71688\/revisions\/71689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}