• Question: What inspired you to be a marine biologist

    Asked by anon-193366 to iainstaniland on 5 Nov 2018.
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      Iain Staniland answered on 5 Nov 2018: last edited 8 Nov 2018 2:13 pm

      Well despite growing up nowhere near the sea I was always fascinated by it and would spend all my time rock-pooling when on Holiday. I really wanted to learn to dive like Jacques Cousteau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau a crazy french explorer who helped develop SCUBA diving.
      Also I was good at biology at school (well better than anything else) and importantly I enjoyed it so it was natural to keep on studying that.

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