Joseph MacInnis
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| Born | Joseph Beverly MacInnis March 2, 1937 Barrie, Ontario |
| Occupation | Physician, Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | M.D., University of Toronto |
| Subject | Underwater Diving, Environmentalism, Ocean Exploration |
| Children | Tracy, Jeff MacInnis |
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Dr. Joseph Beverly MacInnis, CM (born in Barrie, Ontario, Canada on 2 March 1937) is a Canadian physician, author, poet, underwater diver and aquanaut. In 1974, MacInnis was the first scientist to dive in the near-freezing waters beneath the North Pole. In 1976 he became a member of the Order of Canada.
Dr. MacInnis currently studies leadership in high risk environments and gives leadership presentations in North America and Europe. His audiences have included Microsoft, IBM, National Geographic, Rolex, Visa, Toyota and the U.S. Naval Academy.
Dr. MacInnis led ten research expeditions under the Arctic Ocean. He was among the first people to dive to the wreck of the RMS Titanic. In 2012 he was a medical advisor and journalist on the James Cameron-National Geographic seven-mile science dive into the Mariana Trench.
Dr. MacInnis has worked with the U.S. Navy, the Canadian Forces and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has written ten books. His latest, Deep Leadership: Essential Insights from High Risk Environments, was published by Random House. Currently, he is producing a multimedia project, CARRY THE FIRE, to inspire enterprise, optimism and leadership in young people.
MacInnis is of Isle of Mull Scottish descent. He was born in Barrie, Ontario, but grew up in Toronto, where his family moved after his father, a Royal Canadian Air Force instructor, died in a plane crash when MacInnis was a few months old. MacInnis was raised by his mother, who remarried when he was 12. He attended high school at Upper Canada College.
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