Vancouver Island, The Big One, & The Larger Story
Daxton Comba | Associate Media Editor
02.10.26| Vol 57, no. 5 | Video
Nav Videographer Daxton Comba takes us beneath Vancouver Island on a tour of the geologic processes underneath. He speaks with Senior SFU lecturer Andrew Perkins, PhD about the Cascadia subduction zone, “the big one,” glaciation and more. Daxton ponders the earthquake as a looming presence featuring an interview with VIU student Flynn Connolly Sifton, regarding growing up on Vancouver Island. Finally, VIU Earth Science professor Jerome Lesemann, PhD speaks to how geology is studied and considers humans as a geomorphic process.
Daxton Comba
Daxtonis a fourth-year Creative Writing student at VIU, a Graphic Designer, physical media hoarder, and filmmaker. He served as Script Editor and Audio/Visual intern forPortal2025, and moved to Acquisitions Editor forPortal2026 while working as videographer forThe Nav. His writing has been published in bothPortalandGOOEYmagazines, and he received the Meadowlarks Award for Fiction in 2025.
A short stage play of his was produced for VIU’s 2025 One-Act Festival, and over the summer he wrote and directed a stage play titled Funeral Cake for the 2026 Nanaimo Fringe Fest. He is now the Associate Media Manager for Vol. 58 atThe Navigator, and insists that he has overcome his fear of ghosts.
