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Well initially it was partly accidental because I wanted to be an oceanographer, and when
I finished my Bachelors degree I got a job on a Canadian icebreaker which was doing a
circumnavigation of North and South America and this was in 1969.
That was the first time that has ever been done, in fact the only time it's ever been
done, so that meant that we sailed south and we worked first of all in the Antarctic and
then we sailed up to the Pacific, came back through the North West passage, which was
an unusual thing to do.
I found I could do a PHD back in Cambridge at the Scott Polar Institute, so that's what
started me off and I've stayed in it ever since.