by Katie Shoultz | Jun 20, 2026 | Blogs, Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge, coral restoration, CWVC, Mote, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
Although this was my first SCUBAnauts summer trip, I can confidently say that this year’s Summerland Key trip was unlike any other. Staying at Mote’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research and Restoration gave all the Nauts a...
by Katie Shoultz | Jun 15, 2026 | Blogs, coral reefs, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips, Teens
One of the highlights of my Key Largo dive trip was the opportunity to visit and dive around FIU’s Aquarius shore base and underwater habitat. On Thursday, the Scubanauts and I were given a tour of FIU’s Aquarius shore facility, where we learned about the history of...
by Katie Shoultz | Jun 13, 2026 | Blogs, coral reefs, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
On our summer trip to Key Largo, we got the amazing opportunity to do coral outplant work with a coral restoration organization called I.CARE. The day before we outplanted coral, we were on a reef site that allowed us to see just how much impact I.CARE has on Florida...
by Katie Shoultz | Jun 28, 2025 | Blogs, Clean up, coral reefs, coral spawn, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
It was our last night, and suddenly we were in a heated argument with our team members. It was midnight, and we were all tired from our morning dives, just trying to wrap up our projects for the presentation in the morning. My roommate and I started off every morning...
by Katie Shoultz | Jul 28, 2024 | Blogs, Fish Identification, Fish Surveys, Panama City, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
The summer mission to Panama City, FL was a brand new trip that SCUBAnauts have never done before. It was fantastic! There were 14 total dives that where planned and 8 were scientific data collection dives. The science that we did had very interesting data, which the...
by Katie Shoultz | Jul 16, 2024 | Blogs, Diving, Panama City
On the Wednesday of the Panama City Mission, we went to tour the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center. The Navy Dive School is where they train divers from all stretches of the world, to do technical work underwater. When divers come to the Naval Dive School, they...
