Cedric Robert Mann, physical oceanographer (born at Auckland, New Zealand 14 February 1926; died at Sidney, BC 15 October 2009). Dr Cedric Mann came to Canada in 1949 to study physics at the University of British Columbia and was involved in marine acoustics research (1953-61) at the Naval Research Establishment, Dartmouth, NS. He initiated, developed and led the deep-sea OCEANOGRAPHY program of the Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratory at the BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY (1961-75) and was director of the laboratory (1975-78).
Director general of the Bedford Institution (1978-79), he was appointed director general of the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Pat Bay, BC, in 1979,