Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Erin Ching, Reid Harwood and Kelly Morgan
Today was another
busy and eventful day in beautiful Key Largo with our peers. First we
went back down to the NOAA office and finished up as much as we could
with the Denis Trelewicz photo collection. Even though we only made a
small dent in the huge collection, we felt accomplished and have all had
extensive exposure to various anchors, cannons and of course, pillar
coral!
Measuring tape on cannon at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
After our usual
lunch of sandwiches we headed down to John Pennekamp State Park to put
our newly learned mapping techniques to work. At the park there are
numerous cannons that we practiced with. Last night we learned about
angle-distance and trilateration mapping techniques and practiced them
inside, so today it was refreshing (literally) to be in the water
putting the skills to work. It is definitely much different on land than
it is in the water, even when we were just snorkeling. All this practice
will hopefully mean that our first day of diving and mapping tomorrow
goes off without a hitch!
Anchor from Spanish shipwreck at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park
Kelly Morgan with mylar writing slate to take notes on under water
During lecture
today we learned more about the wreck site that we will be diving
tomorrow through pictures and recorded history. With all the practicing
and learning we did today we can't wait to get in the water and start
mapping the Menemon Sanford!
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