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The mission of SCUBAnauts International is to educate teens in the marine sciences, enabling them to make a positive impact on the environment and empowering them to become tomorrow’s leaders.

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Reflections on Panama City, FL Summer Mission

“If I was given the opportunity to go on this trip all over again, I would pick up the opportunity in a heart beat.”

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I Could Do a Hard Hit, Could You?

Heavy hits are the worst of the worst. They turn of your air rip your regulator out and tangle them take your mask off, undo the BCD buckles, and other issues.

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From Mask Anxiety to Full Face Mask Diver

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 air? What if...
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Rookie of the Year

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...
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6am Wake Up Call in St Croix

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...
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Florida Oceans Day 2019

Florida Oceans Day 2019

SCUBAnauts Meet with Tallahassee Legislators We at SCUBAnauts take ocean conservation very seriously and love to help the environment in any way we can. Florida Oceans Day 2019 was held on Tuesday, April 2nd in Tallahassee. Four nauts and three adult leaders drove up...

Dive Safety Rescued by Camaraderie

Dive Safety Rescued by Camaraderie

By Cordelia C.For many new nauts, the prospect of SLAM training may seem like a drag. It's hours of classwork and note taking and then more time in the pool completing boring exercises just so you can finally get to do the fun dives. However, SLAM is a bonding...

Up Close and Personal with Prehistoric Creatures

Up Close and Personal with Prehistoric Creatures

by Sophia R., SCUBAnaut Second Class, Women Diver's Hall of Fame Scholarship Recipient This weekend I had the pleasure along with 14 other SCUBAnauts to go shark tagging. We drove down to Fort Lauderdale...

Parent Perception: Nauts are Prepared

Parent Perception: Nauts are Prepared

By Elaine Ziska, proud parent I'm SO happy my kids were able to have the experience of Saturday's shore dive and really appreciate the adults who helped.  It isn't easy to get kids experiences which really challenge them physically, emotionally and...

Shore-Diving Nauts V. The Ocean

Shore-Diving Nauts V. The Ocean

by Emma Z. On the recent Shark tagging trip to Miami, SCUBAnauts Diana, Sam, Trent, Trevor and I along with dive master Sam Phillips were the first to attempt a shore dive to a wreck. A second group of nauts was eating lunch at a nearby restaurant and were to do the...

New Naut Perspective: Shark Tagging

New Naut Perspective: Shark Tagging

by Jonathan W. During the shark tagging trip, we caught two nurse sharks, two black tip reef sharks, and a bonnethead, a tiger and and short nose shark. It was really fun. We learned how to measure the sharks, tag the sharks and clip the fins so the University of...

Camaraderie Among the Sharks

Camaraderie Among the Sharks

by Logan M. Taking a ScubaNauts trip is the best way to get to know fellow Nauts. Last weekend I went to Miami to go shark tagging with 11 other Nauts. On the way down, we had three hours for me to get to know them. During those three hours we had some really...

Newer Naut Gives Back

Newer Naut Gives Back

by Logan M., Naut-in-Training One year ago, I went to Youth Ocean Conservation Summit and saw a Scubanauts booth. My mom and I then asked what this club was, and they told us that it was a youth...