Unique donation captures marine life for Okanagan College biology students
Unique donation captures marine life for Okanagan College biology students
Biology students at the Salmon Arm campus of Okanagan College are getting a different kind of glimpse into the undersea world, thanks to a unique donation of photographs depicting endangered, and in some cases extinct, marine life.
Tatjana Schmidt-Derstroff spent the early 1970s diving and snorkeling in some of the world’s most spectacular locations, including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.
Framed images she captured from those days are now mounted in the College’s biology lab, featuring shells, coral and other marine life from exotic locations including off the coast of Thursday Island (Arafura Sea), Ningaloo Reef, West Australia (Indian Ocean), Broome, West Australia (Indian Ocean), Flores, Indonesia (Pacific Ocean), Borneo, Indonesia (China Sea), Sri Lanka (Indian Ocean), Kenya, Africa (Indian Ocean), Cook Island, New Zealand (Pacific) Mana Island, off the Fiji Archipelago (South Sea).
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