Fundraiser Car Wash for Mote Marine Laboratory Hurricane Irma Disaster Relief Funds
On Saturday November 11th, 2017 at 1915 Main St, Dunedin, FL 34698 (the Advanced Auto Parts store) the SCUBAnauts will be hosting a car wash to raise funds for the Mote Employee Disaster Relief Fund and the IC2R3 Hurricane Irma Fund. Hurricane Irma moved directly over Mote Marine Laboratory’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research […]
Nauts Earn “Classified Dive Buddy” Certifications
On September 1st and 2nd, five SCUBAnauts participated in Classified Dive Buddy training. This means that they are now certified to dive with a classified dive buddy, or someone with a handicap. On Friday, the SCUBAnauts went to Rock Bottom Divers in Dunedin to do the classroom portion of the training. After that, the SCUBAnauts […]
Nauts Build Dive Skills and Confidence with Rescue Training
On October 19th SCUBAnauts Noah, Blaine, Sarah, Emma, and John dove at Lake Denton with dive instructors Katie Shoultz and Jessie Cohen-Kiraly to earn their rescue diver certifications. The first part of the dive involved practicing basic skills: clearing a mask, retrieving regulator, buddy breathing, etc. All the trainees performed these tasks without fail thank […]
Summer Trip “Life Changing” for New Naut
My first SCUBAnauts trip to the Keys was life changing. I think it was the best experience for me, considering I am still a new diver. Before the trip, most of my dives were for training. Of course, my first day in the Keys, I didn’t know what I was doing on the boat with so […]
SCUBAnauts “Dive In” Behind the Scenes at The Smithsonian
In our recent trip to Washington, DC for Capital Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) , SCUBAnauts had a chance to go behind the scenes at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and meet first hand some of the curators and scientists who work there. Tim Coffer, the Museum Specialist for Invertebrate Zoology, showed us the […]