by Katie Shoultz | Aug 15, 2020 | Coral Transplant, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips, Teens, Uncategorized
In the midst of COVID-19, life goes on. The NC SCUBAnauts (that’s us!) planned a dive trip to prove this. (And also to put a toilet at the rock jetty. The usual.) We originally planned to have some of the Florida Nauts come up and dive with us, but seeing as Florida...
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 Katie Shoultz | Jul 10, 2020 | Jupiter, Sharks, Summer Trips, Teens, Uncategorized
Today we went out with Emerald Charters and did 3 shark dives. The main divemaster brought down a crate of fish pieces to feed and bring in the sharks on each dive. Throughout our dives we saw lemon, silky, dusky, bull, reef, sandbar, nurse, and tiger sharks. We all...
by Katie Shoultz | Jul 8, 2020 | Diving, Jupiter, Naui, Navigation, Sharks, Summer Trips, Uncategorized
Our first day in Jupiter, Florida began with a shore dive at the world renown dive site “Blue Heron Bridge.” First, we performed a few navigation exercises for the NAUI Master Diver course the majority of Nauts are taking. These exercises focused on compass...
by Katie Shoultz | Jun 25, 2020 | coral reefs, Coral Transplant, Mote, Science, Scientific Diving, SCTLD, Summer Trips, Teens, Uncategorized
The Keys are an extremely fun place to dive and explore. They are even more fun to do those things with SCUBAnauts International. Fortunately for me, this is my second trip with these wonderful divers. Since this is my second trip, I know more people and am much more...
by Bryn Fleming | Aug 30, 2019 | coral reefs, Coral Transplant, Diving, Education, Science, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips, Teens
Coral Restoration: Not the Same All Over Coral restoration in the Carolinas has not taken off quite as rapidly as the mainstream coral restoration movement in Florida and the Bahamas. This could be based on several factors. Oculina (NC) vs. Acropora (FL) For instance...
