
31. Rachel Crane: Restoring Corals, Nat Geo Expeditions, and Swimming with Humpbacks
07/01/20 • 81 min
Rachel Crane is a captain, dive instructor, expedition leader, and marine ecologist. Today, Rachel shares with us her dreams of being a vet in rural upstate New York morphed into becoming a boat captain in the Florida Keys for Coral Restoration Foundation. Along the way, Rachel had an incredible internship that included diving with Navy Seals in the longest pool in the world, swimming with humpbacks, and cave research. Rachel also takes us on a Nat Geo cruise in Alaska, and shares a hilarious and rare interaction between a juvenile tiger shark and a pufferfish.
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Rachel Crane is a captain, dive instructor, expedition leader, and marine ecologist. Today, Rachel shares with us her dreams of being a vet in rural upstate New York morphed into becoming a boat captain in the Florida Keys for Coral Restoration Foundation. Along the way, Rachel had an incredible internship that included diving with Navy Seals in the longest pool in the world, swimming with humpbacks, and cave research. Rachel also takes us on a Nat Geo cruise in Alaska, and shares a hilarious and rare interaction between a juvenile tiger shark and a pufferfish.
Support the show (http://patreon.com/marinebiolife)
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