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Captain Alfred Scott McLaren
Captain Alfred Scott McLaren, USN (Ret), President of The American Polar Society is a lecturer, writer, and research scientist. His area of scientific research is the role of the Polar Regions in global climate change and the deep sea. He has traveled extensively in both the Arctic and Antarctic. He is the author of over 50 research papers in scientific journals. He is the Director of Sub Aviator Systems LLC and Senior Pilot of their revolutionary new Super Aviator submersible.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Naval War College, He is a veteran of more than 20 Cold War submarine operations. His awards, as a Cold War submarine captain, include the Distinguished Service Medal. Currently a deep sea explorer and scientist, Captain McLaren has completed lengthy dives using Russian deep-diving MIR submersibles to R.M.S. Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck.
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Exploration of Extreme Underwater
Environment -
Return to RMS Titanic, 1999 and 2003.
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Triumph and Tragedy, the Fate of DKM
Bismarck. -
The Historic First-ever Survey of the entire
Siberian Continental Shelf by USS
Queenfish (SSN-651).
Captain McLaren operates a very busy Speaking schedule. Lectures have been presented to several hundred universities and colleges, service organizations, scientific groups, agencies, institutes, laboratories, academic, scientific, military and civilian audiences throughout the world including most recently:
- MOTE Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida
- Symposium, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
- OCEANS 2013, Invited Dinner Speaker
- Conversations with Extraordinary People – Boulder History Museum
..with a career steeped in such amazing and unique achievements, the opportunity to hear Captain McLaren should not be missed
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