Narwhal Study: Narwhal Stampede
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
A strong and gusting onshore breeze has been blowing from the north for the last few days and very few narwhals have...
Arctic Diving: Mount Pelly Excursion
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer
The day after the trip to the Findlayson Islands and Starvation Cove, we spent the morning catching up on chores: filling scuba cylinders, sorting p...
Narwhal Study: Greenland Shark Tagging
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
At dawn fog banks started to roll in from both up and down the Sound — wispy fingers, silently reaching out and cree...
Arctic August: No Ice
By John Nightingale, President & CEO, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre
For the first time in 20 plus years of coming to Canada’s Arctic – we saw no pack ice. We certainly saw grand icebergs, both...
Arctic Diving: Findlayson Islands
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer
On a very early and dark Sunday morning, Mackenzie Neale, Ruby Banwait, Laura Borden and I left Vancouver, beginning our voyage to Cambridge Bay, N...
Narwhal Study: Tags Deployed Pt 2
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
As the wind increased, I returned to my tent to secure all my belongings. The frame and lines were being buffeted in...
Narwhal Study: Tags Deployed Pt 1
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
The weekend weather was picture perfect, with each spectacular morning sunrise heralding very warm temperatures thro...
Arctic August: Arctic Ice Packs
By John Nightingale, President & CEO, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre
This past winter (2015-2016) the Arctic ice pack, which is the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean, saw the smallest amount of ice...