Biographie
In 1941 he went to sea in the Merchant Navy as a Cadet. (He was qualified as a Master Mariner.)
Anecdotes
He spent many seasons in the Western Arctic in the C.S.S. Richardson.
He made the news headlines when his ship the Richardson was almost lost in the pack ice off Point Barrow in 1967 His list of impressive accomolishments includes becoming the Director General of the Bayfield Laboratory for Marine Sciences in 1978.
He was past president of the Marine Club of Toronto. the Canadtan Company of Master Mariners, the Canadian Institute 'of Geomatics and the Hydrographic Society of the United Kingdom.
