Day 1: Welcome introductions; Program & vessel orientation; sailboat anatomy lesson
Day 2: Intro to Sailing; Intro to Oceanography & Climate Change; PADI SCUBA training dives.
Day 3: Sailing Rules of the Road; Biological Oceanography; PADI SCUBA training dives, snorkel.
Day 4: Navigation I; Population biology; PADI SCUBA Checkout Dives (Dives 1-2).
Day 5: Navigation II; Coral reef ecology; PADI SCUBA Checkout Dives (Dives 3-4).
Day 6: Marine electronics; Fish diversity/anatomy; Fish Identification Exercise (Dive 5 + snorkel).
Day 7: Boat design and history of sail; Invertebrate (reef critter) diversity/ anatomy; Reef critter identification exercises (Dive 6).
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Day 8: Seamanship; Fisheries management; Fish age and growth, day ashore exploring and barrier reef snorkeling.
Day 9: Celestial navigation I; Protected and endangered species; Recruitment, artificial reefs (Dive 7).
Day 10: Celestial navigation II; Human impacts on marine environment; Night dive (Dive 8), nature hike.
Day 11: Advanced knots; Animal behavior; Observations for your experiment (Dive 9).
Day 12: Mutiny! Students take over the vessel; Designing experiment; Conducting underwater experiment (Dive 10).
Day 13: Mutiny!; Conducting underwater experiment (Dive 11); Looking at experimental results, final exams.
Day 14: Pack, swab, sadly say farewells, and depart |
