Miles Clark was a writer/photographer and former features editor of Yachting Monthly. In 1981 he led a Cambridge research expedition to Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands—seaking evidence for the existence of a marine mammal positively identified by the early explorers and 200 years later by Miles and Beryl Smeeton—for which he was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society's Bish Medal. A keen offshore yachtsman, he lived in Northern Ireland. Miles Clark died in 1993.