MSc Tech. Jouni Polkko

Jouni Polkko, MSc (Tech.), has worked at the Finnish Meteorological Institute as a researcher in planetary and space research projects for more than 30 years. He has participated in the design, construction, testing and scientific operation of space instruments in international research projects, such as NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity and M2020 Perseverance rovers on Mars, and the Cubesat nanosatellite projects. He has been involved in diving and underwater shipwreck exploration for more than 35 years and is also a scientific diver, in addition to being an expert in mixed gas and closed-circuit diving equipment. 

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."