February 11, 2015 — The National Guard has been called in to assist with snow removal. The MBTA is shut down. Schools are closed. But the fish and animals that call the New England Aquarium home still need to eat.
Enter the “storm team,” a skeleton crew assigned to keep everyone—from Myrtle the green sea turtle to the midnight parrotfish—fed.
John Hanzl has worked at the Aquarium for 14 years, as an aquarist and now a diving safety officer.
“My supervisor called me last night. He said ‘If the MBTA is shut down, you’re on the storm team.’ And the MBTA is shut down, so here I am,” Hanzl said.
Hanzl told Boston.com he woke up at 7 a.m. The walk from his South End home to the Aquarium took an hour. Chris Bauernfeind, a senior aquarist, walked from Jamaica Plain, in snowshoes.
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