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 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 | Jun 24, 2024 | Blogs, Fish Surveys, Scientific Diving, St Croix, Summer Trips
During the 2024 St Croix summer trip we did a handful of fish surveys and benthic dives. We did these dives to collect data for our science projects and to input it into the REEF database. To do our fish and benthic dives we all had to wake up between 6-8 in the...
by Katie Shoultz | Jul 23, 2023 | AGRRA, Blogs, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
I have been a SCUBAnaut for around two years and am grateful to attend the Roatan, Honduras trip. The goal of this trip is to get Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment Benthos certified, which is an internationally used protocol to access reef health in the...
by Katie Shoultz | Jul 19, 2023 | Blogs, Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge, coral restoration, Dr. Michael Crosby, Mote, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips, Teens
Each summer, members of SCUBAnauts International and Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge convene in the Florida Keys to support Mote Marine Lab in their coral restoration nurseries. This year, due to historically warm water temperatures, Mote’s team was hesitant to...
