by Katie Shoultz | Jun 18, 2025 | Panama City, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
To start, I personally loved everything about this summer trip. At first, I was extremely nervous leaving home as I have never been away from my family for an extended period of time, but now I am extremely grateful I did. During this trip, I think everyone has been...
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...
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...
