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...
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)....
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 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...