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Katujjiqatigit / Working Together: The all-female Sedna Epic Expedition brings a changing ocean to eye level for coastal Inuit communities
BANK TO THE LEFT, bank to the right. Tethered to diver propulsion vehicles, the women flew through emerald-green waters at six kilometres per hour, dodging sculpted ice formations off the northern coast of Labrador. They soon discovered that snorkelling in pack ice is a contact sport. After several star-inducing head bumps, the team’s dive physician determined that helmets would be standard gear for future expeditions.
Susan R. Eaton
A geoscientist, journalist and explorer, Susan R. Eaton studies the interplay of plate tectonics, oceans, glaciers, climate and life in polar regions.
A Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Susan explores the world’s oceans—from Antarctica to the Arctic—in the snorkel zone, a unique land-sea-ice-air interface where charismatic animals and snorkelers comingle.
In 2018, Ocean Geographic named Susan one of the “Ocean’s Best” 18 most influential women leaders in ocean conservation.
Twelve years ago, Susan suffered a scuba diving trauma that landed her in a hyperbaric chamber for three days, ending her 30-year diving career. Undaunted, her up-close-and-personal relationship with the ocean—which had included studying marine biology and teaching scuba diving—didn’t end in the hyperbaric chamber…
Redefining her relationship with the ocean, Susan has snorkeled with thousands of chatty belugas Hudson Bay and with docile manatees at Crystal River, Florida. She’s snorkeled in the Galapagos Archipelago where sea turtles, sea lions and nurse sharks outnumber snorkelers. In Haida Gwaii, she’s assisted the Haida Nation, snorkeling northern rivers to count salmon migrating to their ancestral spawning grounds. Susan has come face-to-mask with charging 1,400-pound leopard seals in the Southern Ocean—so close, in fact, that she could count the freckles on their upper palates and inspect their tri-serrated teeth which dispatch 30-pound penguins in mere minutes.
On Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, Susan was honoured to be included in the book by Paulina Cameron, entitled “Canada 150 Women: Conversations with Leaders, Champions and Luminaries.”
In 2015, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society named Susan one of Canada’s top 100 modern-day explorers and trailblazers. A year later, the same organization named her one of Canada’s 25 greatest female explorers.
Sedna Epic Norway 2019: Women’s Leadership & Winter Snorkel
Please consider supporting a portion of my personal costs to lead the Sedna Epic Expedition’s women’s leadership program and winter snorkel expedition to Norway in November 2019.
Every donation is welcome and accretive to my bottom line.
Warm regards, Susan
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Acorn Woodpeckers are best known for their habit of hoarding acorns: the birds drill small holes in a dead snag, then harvest acorns in fall and store them in these holes, to be eaten during winter. https://t.co/h6xxMzUbas
Happy #PolarBearWeek! During Sedna's 2018 dive & snorkel expedition to Nunavut & Greenland, we observed a mother #polarbear swimming ahead of her two cubs near the front of the Croker Bay Glacier in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of #Nunavut. Photo © Becky Schott—https://t.co/mebOJEXpT4
Celebrating #PolarBearWeek! I was preparing to snorkel with chatty belugas in #HudsonBay when our boat driver spied three male #polarbears cooling down in the frigid waters. I captured this photo as the bears exited the water. Photo © https://t.co/8pywKsdclR @TravelManitoba
On #InternationalInuitDay, we celebrate our Inuit partners, team members & advisors and acknowledge their contributions to the @SednaEpic Expedition's ocean knowledge sharing & mobilization programs. The hands of Sedna's cultural advisor @AajuPeter depict the legend of Sedna
Countdown to Tromsø, Norway! In 3 weeks, the sea women @SednaEpic will be 350 kms above the Arctic Circle, conducting science and snorkelling with orcas & humpbacks. Please support my #GoFundMe campaign to lead Sedna's #WomenoftheArctic #Inuit #Saami
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Happy International Inuit Day
(Image: Annie Pootoogook's Composition (Family Portrait)) #inuitday @kenojuakcentre
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Just.... WOW. Team Sedna heads to Tromso very soon. We hope to see this group there - both the whales and the humans that captured this incredible image!
Fantastic! We hope you have a magical trip and look forward to following along. 💙 Thank you for bringing the ocean world and its communities to us all.
This just takes my breath away...
We're delighted to announce that Pamela Martin has joined the Sedna Epic Expedition to Tromso, Norway, November 23-December 2, 2019.
Pamela is an Australian freelance journalist, writer, producer, underwater photographer, Submerged Nation Ambassador and Climate Reality Leader, trained by Al Gore.
Pamela previously worked with the United Nations Department of Peace Operations in East Timor covering conflict and post conflict topics such as; riots, domestic violence, infant mortality, presidential and parliamentary elections and culture.
Highlights of Pamela’s career include working with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President Jose Ramos Horta, covering his last weeks in office and shooting the Presidential Portrait for President Taur Matan Ruak.
Pamela has worked on numerous book covers for academics at both Monash and Swinburne Universities including; East Timor: Beyond Independence and Democratic Consolidation after Intervention.
As a freelance journalist Pamela has covered a range of stories for Getty Images, Fairfax, Reuters, Australian Associated Press, The Guardian and Time Online. In this diverse role she has covered topics such as: political corruption, democracy, independence, Australian spy allegations, Australian/East Timor maritime boundary disputes, domestic violence in developing countries and Australian bushfire disaster relief.
Pamela’s love of the ocean has seen her specialise in underwater photography as feature editor for Ocean Geographic documenting the humpback whale populations of the South Pacific, sperm whale populations of the Azores, shark populations of the Galapagos, Cocos and Revillagigedo Island marine protected areas and climate change issues in the Coral Triangle and High Arctic.
Her expertise in this niche field has seen Pamela’s stills published in Ocean Geographic, Submerged Nation, WildAid and Conservation International campaigns and footage used in David Suzuki’s Force of Nature documentary series.
“We are the caretakers of our planet it is our duty to do what we can to protect and preserve our natural wonders for the future of all earths inhabitants.” Pamela Martin
That sounds awesome Pammy what an experience 💕
Great to have you on the team Pamela, looking forward to meeting you!
#PolarBearWeek is technically finished... But, the we have one more memory to share from our 2018 dive and snorkel expedition to Nunavut and Greenland.
The lovey photo was captured in the Northwest Passage during the Sedna Epic Expedition in August 2018: A mother polar bear swims ahead of her two cubs along the face of the Croker Bay Glacier in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. Photo © Becky Kagan Schott—sednaepic.com
