Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 240
I thought, what is this position he’s talking about?… Read More
I thought, what is this position he’s talking about?… Read More
I remember meeting with people and I’m thinking, I gotta look for another job. I, I don’t know if this is gonna last, how this is gonna work out. I was just so cruShedd at the time. Read More
He said, can you meet me down in bubble net, the cafeteria when it wasn’t being used by the public?… Read More
And he said, I’m gonna do some rearrangement. And he says, among other things I’m gonna make you head of, I’m not sure if it was legislative and external affairs, or it might have been legislative and regulatory affairs. The title changed a little bit, but essentially the same responsibilities. Read More
This was one of my darkest moments at Quarium. I never saw this coming. I was loving director of animal collections position. I met with the then director. Read More
Now in 2001, you have another job change as senior vice president of regulatory and external affairs, how do you get this position?… Read More
Why you do you have to interview for it?… Read More
Good, good people, very, very confident, very compassionate people in many cases. And generally just good to work with. Read More
We would often say, you know, you get first dibs on the story. So for instance, when we were collecting the first beluga whales, we had Bill Curtis on board from CBS and oh gosh, I lost his last name. He was a Chicago Tribune writer, bill somebody. Anyway, they… Read More
I’m like, kinda like, we have no secrets here. You know, we’re, we’re playing by government rules and we’re doing best by the animals. So yeah, nothing really majorly disruptive. I mean, things were going on an even keel, Amazon was being developed and Wild Reef came on board. And… Read More
You know, by that point there was just a modicum of activism, you know, that was not happy with what we’re doing, but they, they did not have the presence they once did. And I think again, the media folks realized, you know, Shedd’s doing a great job. There’s nothing… Read More
During your time as director of animal collections, were there any major issues that came up during your tenure as Director of Collections?… Read More
And then we sold the boat in the late 1970s. But it was a board approved that we’re gonna build our own boat and design our own boat. And that’s where Captain John Rothschild came in. And the boat was assembled on the Aya River down in Louisiana. And John… Read More
So it was used for animal acquisition research, but also for education. A huge education tool where students could apply for a class and actually get as part of their class a trip on the boat over The Bahamas and see environments and, you know, snorkel and a truly immersive… Read More
We were able to design bigger and more, more numerous live wells to keep the animals alive during the collecting trip. Prior to shipping all the, you know, like the compressor for filling scuba tanks was upgraded twin diesel engines. It was really a nice, nice boat. It still is. Read More
First of all, the boat was used for several different operations of the She Aquarium. It was used by our conservation researchers that had work going in The Bahamas. So that, that grew in latter years. More importantly, it was used for specimen and collect collection in The Bahamas in… Read More
And what was it used for?… Read More
Were you in charge as Director of collections?… Read More
Now I’m the veterinarian. I know what to do best. So finding that common ground and working together. So you had talked earlier about that the Shedd had a major sea going boat. Read More
And I remember they saw it at the research, I mean at the rescue facility. We saw it back at the aquarium where it would have a grand mal seizures and the trainers were trained what to do for the animal when they experienced this. So the animal, I mean,… Read More