Meet the dive team:
Jonas (right), Michelle (2nd on left), Tyler (center), and JD (2nd on right) are all from Bermuda. Ryan (left) is
from California.
This week we have been focusing on learning the names of
different types of fish and corals. So far the interns can name at least 75
fish and 12 types of hard coral!
On each of the dives they have learned how to survey fish
and coral populations by three different methods. For one of the methods they
lay a thirty-meter transect, and record what is on the bottom of the ocean at
each meter mark. To survey fish populations they can use their thirty-meter
transects with roving divers to count the number of different fish they
observe. With the third method, the diver stays stationary at one point on the
transect and slowly turns in a circle over a period of 8 minutes recording what
they see.
Dive sites visited:
Day 1: Rock Up Reef and North Rock
Day 2: Natural Arches and Pelinaion
Day 3:
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