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...
by Katie Shoultz | Jul 15, 2024 | Diving, Panama City, Safety, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
At first the idea of diving with full face masks terrified me. I was comfortable diving with a normal regulator and mask, as I’d been doing so for 3 years. So many problems came into my head. What if water started leaking into the mask and I couldn’t get...
by Katie Shoultz | Jun 24, 2024 | Blogs, coral reefs, Diving, Mote, National Park Service, Scientific Diving, St Croix, Summer Trips
Brain corals can grow to over six feet in diameter. I saw this for myself treating diseased coral in St. Croix this summer. The trip started at two in the morning at the airport where we made our way to the U.S. Virgin Islands. We arrived at Camp Howard where we...
by Katie Shoultz | Oct 2, 2022 | Diving, In the Community, scholarship, Scientific Diving, Teens
This past year in SCUBAnauts has been such an amazing experience for me. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to become a scuba diver. Due to unfortunate financial circumstances however, I have never been able to pursue this dream. When I saw that SCUBAnauts...
by Katie Shoultz | Nov 24, 2021 | Blogs, Clean up, coral reefs, Coral Transplant, Diving, Education, Fish Identification, Mote, Navigation, Scientific Diving, Teens
In November, a group of ten nauts traveled from around Florida to Summerland Key for four days of diving– or at least of adventures! For our first day in the Keys, we spent the morning studying organism identifications. We were divided into two groups, one group...
by Katie Shoultz | Nov 12, 2021 | coral reefs, Diving, Giving Back, Lionfish, Lionfish Removal, North Carolina, Teens
Coral reefs and other aquatic ecosystems around the world face a myriad of challenges, including climate change, marine debris, and invasive species just to name a few. In September, four Nauts from the North Carolina Chapter traveled to the Florida Keys to directly...
