SALTY SLATE Ltd.

🎙️ Today our founder Bec Pratt jumped on RNZ’s The Panel with Wallace Chapman to talk all things ‘Shelf Life’ - the first children’s book produced by Salty Slate.

🐟 Jump to 9:35 to hear about the colourful reefs just offshore of South Taranaki, and many other ocean stories along this coastline, which inspired the book’s world and characters.

🎵 Catch Bec’s full interview on RNZ and dive into the magic behind Shelf Life:

The Panel Plus for 11 December 2025 An extra half hour of The Panel with Wallace Chapman, where to begin, he's joined by Nights host Emile Donovan. Then: Bec Pratt grew up diving around the hundreds of reefs off the coast of South Taranaki. They inspired her to go overseas and start a career in documentary filmmaking. After years work...

“I want to inspire kids, get them under that blue surface.” – Bec

🌊 Our founder Bec recently sat down with Taranaki Daily News to chat about Salty Slate’s latest mahi – children’s book Shelf Life / Paenga Ora, and South Taranaki's real offshore world of whales, vibrant reefs and shipwrecks that inspired it.

The article is online behind a paywall, but if you’re local you can grab a copy of today’s paper and have a read!
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360911170/storybook-takes-children-under-waves

💙 Feeling very grateful to see this little ocean project out in the world.

Aotea Utanganui - Museum of South Taranaki Puke Ariki South Taranaki Underwater Club - DiveClub Project Reef Life - South Taranaki Creative New Zealand

Storybook takes children under the waves Scuba diver Bec Pratt has written a book she wished was around when she was small, telling about the underwater world just off the coast of Taranaki.