Lancaster Sound

The Pecos League took the possibility seriously enough to plan for a team with a new nickname — the Lancaster Sound Breakers — and feature a logo and merchandise for what the league called “a proposed expansion team.”

At the New Networks for Nature conference in the United Kingdom in 2017, the renowned Scottish wildlife cinematographer Doug Allan described a pod of beluga whales in the Lancaster Sound of the Canadian Arctic swimming beneath him as he snorkeled at the surface.

The researchers said the ice they sampled appeared to be at least a year old and had probably drifted into Lancaster Sound from more central regions of the Arctic.

In the coming weeks, he will be taking ceremonial swims in Lancaster Sound, a body in the Canadian arctic, and off Franz Josef Land, an archipelago in the Russian Arctic, all to promote awareness of the threats climate change poses to oceans.

“We’ve seen it in the polar bears here and in Lancaster Sound. We’ve seen it in the ringed seals. And if you look at the population, then the mercury loads here are by far higher than any other Inuit or the Indian tribes, or other indigenous or nonindigenous populations.”