by Site Admin | Jun 29, 2012 | Blogs, Summer Trips
Today I have spent 7 days in Belize. I have had an amazing time and learned a bunch. The diving has been unbelievable, and the hospitality has been incredible. The most interesting thing I learned about the island is that it is an atoll that was formed by the two...
by Site Admin | Jun 28, 2012 | Blogs, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
Thought I would talk about my day today on Glovers Reef Marine Reserve. Today we did three dives, coming back to the island between each island for our surface interval. Between our first two dives, my science project partner (Brooke Liston) and I typed up the...
by Site Admin | Jun 26, 2012 | Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
Over the past three days we have had the opportunity to dive parts of a single reef that all lie at different depths. At 90 feet, the reef is a vertical wall of coral. The wall is made up of various Montastrea spp. corals. Generally, small fish are absent at...
by Site Admin | Jun 25, 2012 | Blogs, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
It has only been day 3, yet us nauts have finished a ton of science! Every day we learn something new, something exciting, and something “unbelizeable” that will last us forever. For instance, last night we were blessed with a clear sky (one without rain)...
by Site Admin | Jun 24, 2012 | Blogs, Scientific Diving, Summer Trips
We woke up to a ferocious thunderstorm with rain and bright lightning. Everyone in a hammock got soaked. Even though there was a storm, the visibility during dives was still 60 feet +. Corals at depth were flatter and smaller. They have to collect...
by Site Admin | Jun 23, 2012 | Blogs, Summer Trips
Brooke conducting an AGRRA point count surveyHello, the SCUBAnauts have arrived in Belize! We got to drive though Belize city. We saw the poorest and richest parts of Belize. Since our currency is twice as strong, most of the Belize citizens are poor in our standards....