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“Bruce Bott’s perceptive approach to learning more about whales in their natural habitat has additional value in its potential for increasing public awareness of the almost human attributes of whales and of the need to treat them as something more than spectator objects in marine zoos or sources of blubber. I fully expect this project (Project Apex) to capture the public imagination in much the same way that Kon-Tiki did.” G.O. Mackie, Chairman, Department of Biology, University of Victoria.
“I was privileged to see films he has taken, perhaps at great personal risk, of the threatened killer whale in British Columbia. He was able to show me what my colleagues in science have not been
able to do, that these whales mimicked noises he transmitted to them in the water… The work should be continued to document the remarkable nature of these animals… As one deeply familiar with the problems of whales at the hands of man – I sit on the National Scientific Advisory Committee to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission – I applaud Bruce Bott’s efforts.” Professor of Natural History, Kenneth S. Norris, Director of Coastal Marine Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz.
“The film is a wonderful statement, the closest glimpse we have yet gained of these creatures. In it is documented the first ever unquestionable communicative exchange between free orca and humans.” Dr. Paul Spong in Mind in the Waters.