Get a quick taste of Scott McVay's upcoming memoir Surprise Encounters with Artists, Scientist, Whales and Other Living Things.

By the mid-1980s, the Cabo Pulmo Reef was overfished and polluted with runoff and waste, both animal and human. Local residents were forced to go elsewhere to find work. Worried that they might have to abandon their way of life, the community met with experts...who, in 1991, was the first scientist to perform