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Articles by and about Dr. Joe MacInnis
CANADA'S PHYSICIAN - ASTRONAUT
From the National Post - August 22, 2007
Dr. MacInnis describes the three space walks
made by Shuttle
Astronaut Dr. Dave Williams.
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SEARCHING FOR ANTARCTICA
Dr. Joe MacInnis describes a recent trip to the coldest, windiest
and most inaccessible land on earth.
Antarctica is the coldest, most remote,
windiest, most inaccessible land area on Earth. It is a world that
dominates the senses and defies the logic of more sane
latitudes. There is no grass, no trees, only snow, water, ice, sky
and black volcanic mountains suspending these ever-changing elements
above the surface of the surrounding oceans. Within this painful
whiteness and Biblical blackness are fierce contradictions and a
terrible, baffling beauty.
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LIVE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
(MACLEAN'S magazine - June 2005)
Dr. MacInnis describes Hollywood director James Cameron's
up-coming $7-million Titanic-Live broadcast for the Discovery
Channel.
On June 28, the Akademik Keldysh, the
world’s biggest research ship, will slow her engines and come to a
stop in the North Atlantic Ocean, 600 km southeast of St. John’s,
Nfld. She will rest some 4,000 m above the rusting ruins of RMS
Titanic, the fabled liner that struck an iceberg and sank in 1912,
taking more than 1,500 souls with her. During the following four
weeks, the Keldysh, operated by the Russian Academy of
Sciences, will launch two US$20-million research subs that will make
six tandem dives ...
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JOE MACINNIS HAS SPENT HIS LIFE
EXPLORING THE OCEANS, NOW HE WANTS TO SAVE THEM
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By Gerald Hannon in the University of Toronto
magazine - Winter 2005
"MacInnis (MD 1962)
seems never to have lost a boy’s sense of adventure. He retains
something, too, of a boy’s naiveté. He has learned – mostly, it
seems, through the men he’s worked with – a man’s diligence and
application. A man’s intelligent respect for fear. And a crusading
man’s awareness that perhaps the only way to save our threatened
oceans is to instil in others the same awe and sense of wonder that
has animated his life..."
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INTO THE THE ABYSS
MACLEAN'S magazine - Sept 2003
Dr. MacInnis describes James Cameron's $14-million expedition to
film deep-sea volcanic vent sites in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Forty dives were made at ten sites for the production of Cameron's
3-D IMAX movie Aliens of the Deep.
On the afternoon of August 7, James
Cameron, director of Titanic, the most successful
Hollywood movie ever made, climbed
into a mini-sub, took a seat next to the pilot,
adjusted the controls of his 3-D high-definition
camera, and was carefully lowered over
the side into the Atlantic Ocean. Deep Rover
1, Cameron’s 6.3-tonne sub, was equipped
with a large acrylic sphere that gave the pilot
and Cameron, the veteran of dozens of dives
to the wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck,
a panoramic view beneath the surface.
As a diver released ...
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