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 | Aug 11, 2023 | Blogs, Education, Fish Identification, Fish Surveys, Scientific Diving, Teens
Each dive SCUBAnauts conducts has a research or education mission. Recently, some members from the Savannah Chapter took a trip up to Myrtle Beach to dive the Sherman Wreck and practice archeology techniques as well as fish identification. ENTRY: One...
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 | Jul 15, 2020 | Education, Fish Identification, Fish Surveys, Jupiter, Lionfish, Naui, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips, Teens
On July 10th 2020, during the worst pandemic in the history of my existence, I reached the milestone of 150 lifetime dives. Everything during the last four months has revolved around corona virus. I lost my prom, my senior breakfast, my commencement, and even my...
by Evana Foisy | Aug 6, 2019 | FGBNMS, Fish Identification, Fish Surveys, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Lionfish, Science, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips, Teens
[Show thumbnails] Our Science Dive Profile For the final summer trip of 2019, five other senior nauts and I had the chance to go diving in the Texas Flower Garden Banks off of a Liveaboard for three days. The Flower Garden Banks is a National Marine Sanctuary 100...
by Diana P. Phillips | Jul 2, 2019 | coral reefs, Diving, Education, Fish Identification, Honduras, New College, Science, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips, Teens, Uncategorized
Train of Thought Interrupted At 6:30 I woke up; silently I listened to tropical birds and stared at the mosquito net that was spread above my bed, wondering why I, of all the people in the world, got to be in this magnificent place. Eventually, my roommates’ nagging...
