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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Team 1: Cherrelle,
Scott and Kamara
Today we went
snorkeling like all the other days, accept this time we saw a nurse
shark! We saw not one, but six of these sharks. Cherrelle had a good
day today, but she’s a little dehydrated. When she dove into the water
.a nurse shark swam into the water right under her. Kamara also had a
good day today. She was very happy to finally see a shark up close in
the water. Although she was very scared. Scott had a good day too. He
was kind of bored though. We saw a Jelly Fish today too it was purple
and clear. I think we are kind of getting tired of the salt water
though. We went to go feed the Tarpon fish because the Marine Mammal
Conservancy was not opened. It was so cool. So today was pretty darn
good!
Nurse sharks.
P.S. Scott saw a
thorn like fish in the water down by the docks. He said it puked this
other fish. He doesn’t know what the fish was called though.
Dr. B watching the tarpon.
Team 2: Taylor, Ronny
and Oliver
Today we visited
3 sites; first we went to the City Of Washington, Tonawanda
and a cool reef. The thing of most interest to us (Taylor) “City of
Washington” (Ronny (Seeing the Nurse Sharks (Oliver) Same as Ronny.
It was interesting finding a big trumpet fish that was a meter long and
we saw huge Angel Fish. Also in our compound we discovered lots of new
things like a Key Lime Tree, blue land crab, lizards, coconuts, eater
crabs, hermit crabs and parrots. The compound is the best! We regards
to the Tonawanda we found that the in coming college students
will be diving the Tonawanda and we conducted the preliminary
survey. Sea Ya!
Ronny snorkels.
Oliver feeds the tarpon.
Team 3: Cassie, Nick
K. and Nick R.
Weather
Conditions: Hot and Humid, Few Clouds
Visibility: 1st
20ft, 2nd 5ft, 3rd 15ft.
Water
Conditions: 1st and 2nd choppy, 3rd
calm
Today we went to
3 different dive sites the first two were shipwrecks and in deeper
water, the third was a shallow reef. At the shallow reef we saw three
barracudas. Two of them had black spots along their back. Our captain
Mike took weights down and with the sharks. Our afternoon activity was
cancelled so we went to a rental dock that sold fish food for tarpon.
Some of the tarpon were up to 6 ft long. Oliver lay along the edge of
the dock and fed the fish, one almost got his hand.
Team 4: Deidra, Tymar
and Fralisia
Today we went to
three snorkel areas. The City of Washington, some wheel boat
thingy and the agar. The first was this huge barge boat being towed and
had coral and fish. There we also saw four nurse sharks. One even
danced/showed off for us. Then Captain Mike went down and chilled with
them for a while. When we went to the second shipwreck we only moved
like fifty feet away. Finally we went to the Cigar reef. We saw some
Christmas tree worms, trumpet fish and thousands of silver minnows.
Then this afternoon we were supposed to go to the Marine Mammal
Conservancy but they were closed so we went to feed some tarpon. Which
are huge fish. Finally we came home.
City of Washington
Captain Mike on the City of Washington.
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