PhD Juha Flinkman

JUHA ”ROOPE” FLINKMAN, PhD, is a marine biologist, mixed gas diver and scientific diver. Previously a zooplankton re- searcher at the Finnish Institute of Marine Research, he has worked for the past 15 years as a development manager at the Finnish Environment Institute’s (SYKE) Marine Research Centre, with the main task of managing and developing marine research methodology and technology related to research vessels. He has been responsible for scientific diving and related development projects at the University of Helsinki’s Tvärminne Zoological Station, the Finnish Institute of Marine Research, and the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). He has been diving for 40 years.  

Title of the presentation: Fog of War – First World War in Gulf of Finland.

What stories can the warships and merchantmen that sank to the bottom of the northern Baltic during the First World War tell? The Imperial Russian armored cruiser Pallada, the German submarine U-26, the Dutch S/S Alice, the British Royal Navy submarine E-18 – these are just a few of them. Badewanne exploration divers Juha Flinkman and Jouni Polkko bring these stories to light in the presentation and in their recent book "Fog of War – The First World War in the Gulf of Finland."