. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 242. Figure 2. Rendezvous Cay reef party and assistants (left to right): David R. Stoddart, Modesto, Paul K. Bregazzi, Jack Reyes, William Warham, Viola, John E. Thorpe, and John D. Poxon. 1960. Tragically both Jack and Viola died a year later when Hurricane Hattie passed over this cay. institutes and universities and has for years been senior editor of the Journal of Fish Biology. He was joined by Paul Bregazzi, whose doctorate later was on sub-Antarctic crustaceans with the British Antarctic Survey, and
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. 242. Figure 2. Rendezvous Cay reef party and assistants (left to right): David R. Stoddart, Modesto, Paul K. Bregazzi, Jack Reyes, William Warham, Viola, John E. Thorpe, and John D. Poxon. 1960. Tragically both Jack and Viola died a year later when Hurricane Hattie passed over this cay. institutes and universities and has for years been senior editor of the Journal of Fish Biology. He was joined by Paul Bregazzi, whose doctorate later was on sub-Antarctic crustaceans with the British Antarctic Survey, and Will Warham, a farmer with experience with Guinness and later with Irish Television and with humanitarian aid around the world. John saw the need for a geographer—someone who could tell these zoologists where things were on the reef. Through the Head of the Zoology Department, Sir James Gray, he approached Alfred to ask if a suitable geographer might be available. Alfred recommended me. I was committed at the time to the upper Orinoco but agreed to get to Belize as soon as I could. Thus I returned to England from Cartagena at the end of the Colombian expedition and immediately set forth on an oil tanker to Trinidad, Curacao, and Jamaica, on the way to British Honduras. John had organized with the government the use for a year of a small sand cay (Rendezvous Cay) on the barrier reef. Governor Sir Colin Thornley had had reerected there for his rest and recuperation a disused police station from the mainland, which was to be our headquarters. We also had a prime site in the center of Belize City above the main post office as our headquarters. By the time I was free of Colombia and back to the Caribbean, all the other members of the expedition were on site. There remained one important prerequisite for reef work: a boat. John located a total wreck on Cay Caulker, miles to the north. Somehow the hulk was taken to Rendezvous Cay, and the first months were spent in fitting a comple
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