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BC Ferries’s busy route plying the waters between Victoria and Vancouver sees lots of tourists, many of whom have no idea about (or care for) the local marine life they\u2019re sailing over.<\/p>\n
Perhaps that\u2019s why the crown corporation has seen fit to add a biologist to its retinue of stewards, cashiers, and deckhands\u2014to provide a little eco\u00ae\u2013friendly PR about local marine life up top as their powerful propellers churned it up down below.<\/p>\n
On a recent trip, the particular onboard biologist on duty delivered\u00a0her short\u00a0talk\u00a0on\u00a0marine\u00a0ecology\u2014entirely\u00a0in\u00a0up-speak\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n She<\/strong>:<\/p>\n “Eelgrass\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0flowering\u00a0plant?\u201d (Silence) “It\u2019s\u00a0found\u00a0along\u00a0the\u00a0coast\u00a0of\u00a0BC\u00a0in\u00a0sub-tidal\u00a0areas? (Silence with a few looking about for the exits) (Before\u00a0anyone\u00a0could\u00a0decide\u00a0whether\u00a0to\u00a0accept\u00a0or\u00a0refute\u00a0her previous semi assertions), By this point, her up-speak had an urgency that was making everyone uncomfortable. Those who hadn\u2019t already left were now fidgeting with their phones (perhaps hoping the answers could be found there\u2014you never know, debarking might be preceded by an exam). I\u00a0tried\u00a0to\u00a0listen\u00a0and\u00a0learn\u00a0something,\u00a0but\u00a0finally\u00a0got\u00a0up for\u00a0coffee and some other less arduous distraction.<\/p>\n BC Ferries’s busy route plying the waters between Victoria and Vancouver sees lots of tourists, many of whom have no idea about (or care for) the local marine life they\u2019re sailing over. Perhaps that\u2019s why the crown corporation has seen fit to add a biologist to its retinue of stewards, cashiers, and deckhands\u2014to provide a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[104,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29793,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29502\/revisions\/29793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonhall.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n“Marine\u00a0animals\u00a0depend\u00a0on\u00a0it\u00a0for\u00a0their\u00a0survival?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"