2011

Today as usual, was started by discussing the articles. The first article was about mimic octopi, which have evolved to be able to mimic other animals, such as a flounder, a lionfish, and a sea snake. It was interesting to see how they could do this, as the group had a youtube video to show as well. It made...

Today in class we began by finishing up our dogfish shark lab. All that me and Kells had to do was remove the skin on the head of the shark and look at the brain. The cerebellum was about the size of a cashew. Following the clean-up of this lab we began the daily discussion over the two articles....

Wow!  The week has flown by faster than I could ever imagine; yet, at the same time, I can't believe how close we've all grown to the young men in the JCP group. We've had a wonderful week filled with classroom discussion, scuba skills practice, Fish/Invert ID practice, practical application of classroom studies in identifying coral reef bleaching and disease,...

Today differed from all the other days. We didn't eat at the hotel that we usually have breakfast and lunch at. We went straight to the marina to have a quick lunch, so that we could hit the water early to get in our two planned dives. We headed toward the wreck of the Rhone to start our first...

Today began unlike most of the others. We walked into class and started by listening to Mr. Kirby and Doc Gruninger discuss the rules for the british virgin islands. Now I could list those but you would probably fall asleep so I'll move on. Brody and Hayden did the first article today about the blenny, a fish that can...