Filmmaker Robert Nixon Visits the Paint Factory
On Tuesday long time friend and film maker Robert Nixon visited our headquarters on the Gloucester waterfront. Robert recently finished a seminal documentary Mission Blue with one of our board members, Sylvia Earle. Bob brought two young explorers who are assisting Sylvia on a series of expeditions to film America’s unknown underwater wonders, Finn Kennedy and Bobby Nixon. Finn and Bobby toured the site with me as we talked about (on camera) a host of different ocean environmental concerns. We even got a chance to fly SnotBot and test SnotShot. The resulting documentary “Blue Centennial” seeks to inspire the establishment of some of America’s underwater wonders as blue national parks.
“Bobby & Finn had a clear interest and understanding of the problems facing our oceans,” said CEO Iain Kerr. “It was a real pleasure to meet and talk with them.”
Finn’s brother Conner Kennedy joined Ocean Alliance’s Research Vessel Odyssey as a crew member in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012, as we worked to better understand the effects of the Deep Horizon disaster on marine mammals.