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All Aboard the Vessel to Antarctica
By John Nightingale, Ph.D., president and CEO of Vancouver Aquarium On Thursday afternoon, we boarded our “home” for the next 18 nights – the Russian research vessel called the Akedemik Ioffe. The ship...
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Port Stanley – Capital of the Falkland Islands
By John Nightingale, Ph.D., president and CEO of Vancouver Aquarium As part of our group’s trek to Antarctica on a once-in-a-lifetime expedition, we’re now in the Falkland Islands, where Port Stanley...
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Riding Zodiacs to Heightened Awareness
By John Nightingale, Ph.D., president and CEO of Vancouver Aquarium The ship we are travelling on, the Akedemik Ioffe, is over 120 meters long. It is a big ship by research vessel standards – but not...
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Headed for Antarctica, By Way of Drake Passage
By John Nightingale, Ph.D., president and CEO of Vancouver Aquarium. We left South Georgia in a driving snowstorm, with lots of wind and waves for company. The less-than-stellar weather we encountered...
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