High achiever works the coastline
By Cara Mckenna, The Harbour City Star
Brian Falconer, a Protection Island resident, lives on Achiever for up to seven months per year while he is on research trips to the Great Bear Rainforest…
Oil & Water: waves, wilderness and big oil intersect in GBR
We left Vancouver Island’s rugged shore and steamed north toward a vast region known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Before us lay hundreds of miles of unspoiled coastline…
The CV for the SV Achiever
Seaside Times October 2011
Achiever is our coast guard certified steel sloop who safely carries us through wind and waves from anchor to anchor…
Message in a bottle
As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence a potential oil spill, the Institute of Ocean Sciences teamed up with the Gitga’at First Nation and Raincoast to drop “drift bottles” into the Pacific Ocean.
The Captain and Kermode
Seaside Times
December 2010
By Chris Genovali
Captain Brian Falconer has headed Raincoast’s Marine Operations Program for the past eight years, overseeing the operation of our coast guard certified research vessel, Achiever…
Achiever at rest and at work
Check out these images of Raincoast’s research vessel Achiever ‘at rest and at work’ recently taken by our Field Station manager Doug Brown. The ‘at rest’ shot is the boat tied up at the Raincoast Field Station.