The year 1957 was a big one for scientists all over the world. It also almost cost me my life. Nineteen hundred and fifty-seven marked the beginning of the International ..
Bob Iversen is a retired Hawaii fishery biologist who spent 40 years studying tuna and other fish in the tropical Pacific Ocean. He is a former officer in the US Navy, and initiated the “mental health of seafarers” movement that has now taken off worldwide.
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The year 1957 was a big one for scientists all over the world. It also almost cost me my life. Nineteen hundred and fifty-seven marked the beginning of the International ..
Written by Bob Iversen on . Posted in Fishing Boat World Features, Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.
Who is Captain Hook? He plays an important part in this episode and is a very remarkable man. He is Howard W. Pollock, who died in 2011 at age 90, and has had a career mo ..
Written by Bob Iversen on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Fishing & Aquaculture, Fishing Boat World Features, Marine Research and Training, Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.
A white dot. That’s what it was. First very faint, then getting bigger and bigger. I was astonished at what it turned out to be – the white nose of a shark about two ..
Written by Bob Iversen on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Fishing & Aquaculture, Fishing Boat World Features, Fishing Boat World Vessel Reviews, Marine Research and Training, Maritime Archaeology, Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.
This all started in 1959 when a twenty-six-year-old who was studying for his PhD in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania was asked if he would like to direct the ..
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In 1985, I was scuba diving In Kona, Hawaii with retired US Navy Commander Jerry Saber and his brother Rick Saber, a United Airlines pilot, when we heard about this dive ..
Written by Bob Iversen on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Fishing & Aquaculture, Fishing Boat World Features, Marine Research and Training, Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.
This story has two sharks involved, a real one, an oceanic whitetip (Carcharinus longimanus), sometimes called the shipwreck shark, and which are quite large, and somethi ..
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This episode started off with an atomic bang and ended in a whisper. But before the atomic explosion occurred, our fisheries research vessel Charles H. Gilbert had some u ..
Written by Bob Iversen on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Fishing & Aquaculture, Fishing Boat World Features, Marine Research and Training, Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.
My hypothesis (theory) on how sperm whales locate giant squid is that, in addition to using their biosonar, sperm whales locate giant squid by listening for sounds made b ..
Written by Bob Iversen on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Fishing & Aquaculture, Fishing Boat World Features, Marine Research and Training, Regulation & Enforcement, Work Boat World Features.
On Wednesday, February 14, 1979, I was a listless underworked fisheries bureaucrat at the US National Marine Fisheries Service waiting for something interesting to happen ..
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