Tuesday, August 2 – Day 9 In the morning everyone worked like clockwork to get ready to head out to Molasses Reef. Since our first dives last Friday we’ve finally fallen into a normal routine in the morning. The previous evening everyone would prepare measuring gear and scuba equipment so no one had to rush [...]
Monday, August 1 – Day 8 Today was our third day diving. David, Reilly, and Kim went with Patrick to search for the ever-elusive stern; however, they were unsuccessful. The rest of the group went back to buoy 13 to continue plotting out and describing artifacts for the main mast site. Dr. Sheli was swimming [...]
Sunday, July 31 – Day 7 After a hard week of work, we had a much needed day off today. We all slept in to our hearts’ desire and had a relaxing morning. Around midday, we finally got going and went out to Harry Harris Beach. Dr. Sheli, the saint she is, drove us all, [...]
Friday, July 29 – Day 5 Today was our first dive day. The original plan to snorkel over the site was abandoned when we learned that there were strong surges resulting in 4-5 foot waves. Consequently, when we got out to the site many members of the crew got seasick, including Dr. Sheli. The new [...]
Thursday, July 28 – Day 4 Today the field-school took a field-trip to Key West, Florida, to visit the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum. There, we wandered through various exhibits on display, including the finds from the Atocha. Most exhibits concentrated on displaying artifacts salvaged and excavated from historical shipwrecks in the region. One prominent exhibit [...]
Wednesday, July 27 – Day 3 On this lovely Wednesday morning in Key Largo we arrived at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary for one last time to finish recording and cataloging one of NOAA’s collections of artifacts. Not only were we able to finish up the artifacts that we had currently been working on [...]
Monday, July 25 — Day 1 The first day of our field school went great. We started off the day by heading over to the NOAA Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary headquarters where we began cataloging artifacts from the Queen of Nassau, a vessel believed to have scuttled in the early 1900s. We sketched, measured, [...]
