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* Gov. JB Pritzker tweeted this week that he’d recently visited Shedd Aquarium’s research vessel, the R/V Coral Reef II. From the aquarium’s website…

The aquarium’s seagoing satellite is based in Miami, but for much of the year it’s a familiar sight throughout the Bahamian archipelago. For more than two decades, the boat has given Shedd researchers and teams of volunteer community scientists access to far-flung cays in the Bahamas to study critically endangered rock iguanas.

The ocean-going vessel also enables our scientists to conduct open-water studies, including population surveys of the economically and ecologically important queen conch and nassau grouper; studies on coral health and resiliency to climate change; and shark demographic studies. Our research projects are conducted in collaboration with the Bahamian government and local conservation organizations.

Each year the boat also takes Chicago-area college and high school students enrolled in both the ACCA Marine and Island Ecology of The Bahamas and Teen Science Expedition program to nature’s classroom in the Bahamas, where they study reef and island ecology in the water and in a lab on deck.

* Anyway, a pic…

Hope he didn’t get busted for speeding again.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:28 am

Comments

“Pritzker sets sail to check on his offshore trust funds.”

Comment by Ginseng Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:40 am
I am the captain now.

Big tent, big boat, big everything.

Comment by Three Dimensional Checkers Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:41 am
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I’m going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.”

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:51 am
So that’s where ken griffin lives now

Comment by Rabid Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:51 am
“This is a nice little boat. I gotta get one of these for my pool”

Comment by Bruce( no not him) Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:53 am
Iceberg detectors on the ship of state

Comment by Rabid Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:55 am
Governor Pritzker preparing to rescue the spelunkers of misery who got trapped in an undersea cave while searching for bad news for their doom grift.

Comment by ItsMillerTime Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:58 am
Hey, Little Buddy, it’s only a three hour cruise. What harm could result from Thurston Howell III taking the wheel?

Comment by Gravitas Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:58 am
Governor Pritzker was photographed looking at tender options for his family yacht “Hey JB’.

Comment by OneMan Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:59 am
“Think Big.”

Comment by Keyrock Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:01 am
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.

Comment by ChrisB Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:02 am
Alright, I know a great little waterfront spot in Nassau, not far from where my family trust funds are stashed. Just tell me how to turn this thing on and we’re there, man.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:11 am
Trying to find Bailey’s electability in the Bermuda Triangle.

Comment by TJ Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:21 am
taking the pension debt to the Bermuda Triangle

Comment by Rabid Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:24 am
Captain Courageous at the helm taking Illinois to the Sea of Tranquility.

Comment by JS Mill Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:34 am
I think we’re going to need a bigger boat.

Comment by Southside Markie Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:37 am
Hey MK what about getting each of the kids one of these.

Comment by just because Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:41 am
“Is this chair regulation sized because it’s snug”

Comment by ;) Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:46 am
I’d like one of these for my office, it feels more impressive than my normal desk.

Comment by cermak_rd Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 11:07 am
Governor make the appropriate hand gesture, then states ‘this is all my Personal Property’

Comment by DEE Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 11:36 am
It’s easy to grin when your ship comes in and you’ve got the stock market beat…

Comment by Donnie Elgin Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 11:50 am
The man knows how to live.

Caption-

Boat Drinks by Jimmy Buffet.

Comment by Flyin'Elvis'-Utah Chapter Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:05 pm
So powerful he doesn’t even have to touch the wheel

Comment by Amalia Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:17 pm
“You know, boys, the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee….” - from Gorden Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

Comment by thisjustinagain Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:41 pm
“Free boat ride for three. Now, who should I take? MJ aaaand…….T-Pain.”

Any hint of a boat ride triggers the sharing of this video (language: not quite safe for work).

https://youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM

So many good lines that could be used as captions for this photo.

“Everybody look at me ’cause I’m sailin’ on a boat.”

Comment by Pot calling kettle Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:52 pm
“When you get Rauner and Griffin’s yacht on the scopes, go to General Quarters and prepare boarding parties… helm, give me ramming speed….

Comment by Give Us Barabbas Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 2:49 pm
We’re heading for the Playpen near Oak Street Beach.

Comment by Rudy’s teeth Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 3:26 pm
A Governor, a Dentist and a Lawyer were in a boat together when a wave came along and washed them all overboard.

Unable to get back into the boat, they decided two would hold on to the boat and the third would swim to shore for help.

They noticed that there were hundreds of sharks between them and land.

Without a word the lawyer took off! As he swam the sharks move aside.

The dentist yelled: “It’s a miracle!”

“No”, said the Governor, “That’s professional courtesy!”

Comment by Dotnonymous x Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 3:41 pm