Longtime Vancouver Aquarium director John Nightingale to step down

After a quarter of a century, John Nightingale is leaving the Vancouver Aquarium a radically different organization than the one he came to in 1993.
Only the second director in the aquarium’s 62-year history, Nightingale announced Thursday that he would be retiring at the end of 2018, triggering a global search for his replacement.
“On the mission side, I will carry on my interest in oceans and ocean conservation. Some of how I work on that will change,” he said in an interview