Arctic Diving: Photo Highlights
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer
Saying farewell to Cambridge Bay did not mean the end of the work for the 2016 Nearshore Ecology Team. Upon our return to Vancouver we had stacks o...
Arctic Diving: Farewell Cambridge Bay
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer
Right on schedule, our colleagues John Nightingale and Eric Solomon, who had been travelling on the One Ocean Expeditions vessel Akademik Sergey Va...
Narwhal Study: A Privileged Opportunity
By Clint Wright, Vancouver Aquarium executive vice president & chief operating officer
I have found that being unwillingly woken from a deep sleep is rarely a pleasant experience and last night was a jol...
Arctic Diving: Two Deep Dives
By Jeremy Heywood, Vancouver Aquarium diving safety officer
We explored the area to the east of Cape Colborne, which delineates the south-eastern most part of Cambridge Bay (the body of water, not the town)....
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...