Diving at the Vancouver Aquarium, by the Numbers
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer Using both SCUBA and surface-supply diving equipment, 55 staff and volunteer divers from seven different departments completed 931 dives in 2011. The dives ranged from educational dive shows in the Strait of Georgia and Shark exhibits to performing essential exhibit husbandry to undertaking research on threatened rockfish populations in Howe Sound to collecting Arctic specimens in Canada’s far north. A breakdown of the year’s dive logs reveals…Continue Reading: Diving at the Vancouver Aquarium, by the Numbers
