In Good Company: Southern Ocean Adventures with Conor Ryan

Naturalist Conor Ryan feels most at home sailing past incandescent icebergs and observing abundant wildlife in the otherworldly realm of Antarctica. “The natural world feeds my brain and makes me tick,” he says. As a marine biologist, some of his most cherished moments in the polar region are days at sea when he helps guests search for breaching whales and rare seabirds on the ship’s observation deck. In this episode of In Good Company, Ryan shares how his upbringing in Scotland inspired him to become a naturalist, why the Southern Ocean is prime for marine life sightings and how Antarctica shifted his perspective on protecting the planet.

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