in Puget Sound as team members for Apex Expeditions undergo a refresher course in the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW). The three day course in Edmonds, Washington covers water survival, fire fighting and medical training for individuals who crew vessels at sea.
Left to right: Peter Harrison, Shirley Metz and yours truly peeling off our Gumby-like full immersion suits after training in the cold water. (Image by Ingrid Nixon.)
Peter and Shirley are among the founders of Apex Expeditions and I am their go-to geologist during their worldwide travels. Peter has just published his extraordinary new book on seabird identification and Shirley was the first woman to ski to the South Pole from the edge of the continent in 1989.
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