Interview 9078 – Caption Index: 290
But you did have them when you were director?… Read More
But you did have them when you were director?… Read More
Yes. Read More
How did that evolve?… Read More
And again, charter to government agencies like NOAA, they loved the boat. They think it’s great. Still education programs, collecting, chartering to other aquariums that use it. So it’s a big, big, I think, important part of our operation. You mentioned education with the boat. Read More
How did the Aquatic Science Center come about?… Read More
Well, that’s part of the education department, call it either the education department or the Aquatic Science Center. That was something that John Reed’s mother, Mary Shedd Reed financed for us, and her name is on that. So Aquatic Science Center is just another name for the education department. And… Read More
I don’t know what size it is now, but it’s been condensed considerably. You didn’t have volunteers in Chuke’s time. That’s correct. Read More
And when the first vote coral reef became obsolete, was it hard to sell the acquisition of a new boat?… Read More
Well, I think some people on the board had doubts about whether we should replace it, but fortunately John Bent was still on the board at that time. And we had a new director, or a new president, Don Olson, and he supported the idea. So we did, and we… Read More
So they cut their profits on that. We hired a boat architect from up in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin to design it for us. And the aquarium still has that boat. It’s a twin screw, it’s twin generators. It has its own water-making facility a reverse osmosis water maker, which is… Read More
Oh, and as I said, there was a generator. So we put in new generators, we couldn’t do anything about the propulsion engine. We couldn’t put in another engine and make it twins screws. And it was very economical to run, although it made about 8-9 knots, which is pretty… Read More
We could take high school. We had a high school marine biology class, we’d take the high schoolers on these trips. And that was very, very important, a very popular program to take those kids down there. You can imagine that much high school kids, “Man, we’re going to Florida… Read More
We had to be careful on the dive groups, there was somebody who was licensed as a divemaster, and that person had to have his own insurance. And we imbursed him for the insurance in case somebody got in trouble underwater, had an accident. ‘Cause that’s the only way that… Read More
Why did we get a collecting vessel?… Read More
Okay, well, for one thing, quite frankly, I got tired of being towed across the Gulf stream in a flat bottom barge. And once you’re there in the Bahamas somewhere, you were stuck. All you had was maybe a 20 or 25-foot boat to set traps, pull sanes and so… Read More
So it needed some work, and it needed a lot of changes to be able to make it a good collecting boat. So we bought the boat, I think it was 75 feet long. It’s a wooden haul. It was very seaworthy. And so we took it up to Fort… Read More
Fine, let’s go ahead with it. If it was a harebrained scheme, I’d tell him so, that’s it. Read More
When did you feel, or why did you feel that the Shedd needed collecting vessel and how difficult was it to make that process happen?… Read More
Quite frankly, I think I operated on the basis of tell me what your side of the story is. And if I don’t agree with it, I’m gonna tell you so, and we’re gonna do it my way. That happened a number of time. Read More
After all the director of an institution has got to say, the buck stops here, and if it goes wrong and your board comes to you and say, why did you do it this way?… Read More