Please join me for a special event on World Ocean’s Day, June 8 at the Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto, Canada. At 7pm, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society will be making a very special and historic announcement followed by my talk. I’ll be sharing thoughts about exploration, science and the RCGS Expedition of the Year to Bell Island, Newfoundland.
Short and simple: Use a checklist to prepare your rebreather. Complete a five minute pre-breathe with a blocked nose while safely seated and paying attention. Never dive a rebreather with a known fault.
Canada possesses somewhere between 6 and 9 per cent of the world’s renewable fresh water, yet only 0.5 per cent of the global population. From an ecological perspective, it might seem like that supply is abundant yet we really have no water to spare. Canada has 7% of the world’s land mass – meaning we have just about enough water to meet the ecological needs of our land mass (Institute for Research on Public Policy, Canada’s Water Challenges). To complicate matters, the renewable supply of water is expected to decrease with climate change (Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Water Budget).
Roughly 8 per cent of Canada is covered by lakes, more than any other country in the world. The Brookings Institute, a U.S. think tank, found in 2007 that investing $26 billion in restoring Great Lakes ecosystems would create economic benefits in excess of $50 billion (Health Waters, Strong Economy: The Benefits of Restoring the Great Lakes Ecosystem).
Canada boasts more than 202,080 km of coastline, more than any other country in the world.