Nauts gather data from their recently deployed reef balls. They hope to find the reef balls teeming with life!
Up Close and Personal with Prehistoric Creatures
by Sophia R., SCUBAnaut Second Class This weekend I had the pleasure along with 14 other SCUBAnauts to go shark tagging. We drove down to Fort Lauderdale where we were hoping to dive on the Copenhagen wreck. This was a beach dive right off of a restaurant. While the first group was diving, my group […]
Newer Naut Gives Back
by Logan M., Naut-in-Training One year ago, I went to Youth Ocean Conservation Summit and saw a Scubanauts booth. My mom and I then asked what this club was, and they told us that it was a youth diving club that promoted the conservation of our oceans. From that moment on I knew I was […]
Having a Ball!
By Sarah V., SCUBAnaut 2nd Class My first reef ball survey dives were earlier this year in July. I was briefed on the data that we were looking to collect and went to work.We conducted two types of survey. The first one eas a general roaming fish survey of any species present near the reef […]
Making of a Masternaut, Part II
by Vivian F., Masternaut candidate Hello again! My Masternaut project has a lot of different parts to it, and each part has many different components. The main part of my project is the fish identification field guide, which was developed using SCUBAnaut divers in the Florida Keys. Each participating Naut did thirteen dives totaling about […]
The Making of a Masternaut
by Vivian F., Masternaut Candidate Hello, my name is Vivian, and I have been a SCUBAnaut since 2014. I am currently working on my Masternaut project, which is a conservation or science project that a naut develops and produces in order to move up to the SCUBAnaut rank of Masternaut. My project is focusing on […]