Telling Our Stories Speaker Series presents Ian Tamblyn
Wed, May 08
|Haliburton
Science Needs You in the Chukchi Sea
Time & Location
May 08, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Haliburton, 6712 Gelert Rd, Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0, Canada
About the event
In the winter of 1984, I received a letter from an American marine biologist who I had never met. The letter read” Hey, Tamblyn, Science Needs you in the Chukchi Sea. Get your diver’s licence and join us in Nome on July 7th for a month study of the feeding habits of Gray Whales and walrus.”
I burst out laughing when I read this letter but it not a joke. It was an offer that changed the course of my life. I spent that winter in a suburban Ottawa pool and I got my PADI open water certificate diving the murky waters of the St. Lawrence on July 4th. Six days later I made my first Arctic dive at King Island, in the middle of the Bering Strait.
The scientist who made the offer was Dr. John Oliver from the Marine Lab at Moss Landing, California. He had…