Henry Duffy: 97 Days On Pitcairn Island
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
As a student, Henry Duffy jumps at a chance to do research...on the second most remote island in the world. Henry Duffy is a conservationist with a particular interest in the marine environment and a background in tropical marine ecology and fisheries management. He has been marooned on one of the world’s most remote islands for three months in the name of scientific research, and aims to convince everyone that corals, sharks, sponges and fish are just as exciting as all the wildlife on land.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | It felt right. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ... Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:34.3 | This week's stories from Henry Duffy. It was recorded in March 2016 at the Hackney |
| 0:38.6 | Roundchapel in London in collaboration with the British Science Association as part of British |
| 0:43.2 | Science Week. |
| 0:49.9 | So I was, a couple of years ago, I was studying conservation. |
| 0:55.0 | And it came to the time we had to pick projects to do. |
| 0:57.8 | And we could look at advertised projects and pick one of interest. |
| 1:00.9 | And I was looking at this list of projects and one of them said, |
| 1:03.3 | underwater cameras. |
| 1:04.3 | And I stopped, underwater cameras, great, sign me up, sold, whatever else. |
| 1:08.4 | It sounds really interesting. |
| 1:09.9 | Didn't look at where it was, |
| 1:11.4 | initially. After my initial assignment died down, I thought, should probably see where this |
| 1:16.5 | is going to be. And it said, the Pitcairn Islands. Anybody heard of the Pitcahne Islands? That's more |
| 1:22.6 | than people usually say, actually, if I ask anybody. I'd never heard of them. I had absolutely no idea. I thought, |
| 1:28.8 | oh, maybe it's near Australia. Great, I'll get to go to somewhere near Australia. It's not |
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