Weekly Reflection #1
May 5th, 2019, 7:15 pm
My first week of senior project has been an incredible experience and extremely rewarding. This week I learned an enormous amount about scuba diving. Starting with my e-certification course, I learned all about buoyancy and the theory behind scuba diving. I completed numerous skills, completing emergency procedures for mishaps underwater. The first time I took my mask off underwater at the beginning of the week, pure panic struck me and I started to accidentally suck water in through my nose. Even with my regulator in, it felt like I couldn’t breathe and I couldn’t see anything. Now, I have taken it on and off in a number of dives as deep as 45 feet and it doesn’t phase me at all. I learned how to keep myself calm in situations and am very proud to have made it through my night dive without any panic or serious fear. The whole week was amazing. I got to dive already at so many different dive sites, and there are more to come. I feel confident in my diving skills. This week, everything went as planned, which was great. This weeks activities have led me to complete my first goal of my project, which is mastering scuba diving. Although, there is more to come, and always room to grow, I have so far had great success. During our week, we also came across pieces of our other two goals. After speaking with our scuba masters, and with prior experience to the area, we have discovered that Hurricane Irma has actually had a positive effect on the marine life. Our scuba masters told us that a lot of the marine life has made great growth in the past two years, they believe, from a relief from the heavy tourism that hurricane granted. During our dives, we also watched as they were forced to kill numerous lionfish with a spear gun. Lionfish are extremely invasive to the area and have very negative effects on their new environment. Our scuba masters also told us that they have heard of the farm we are soon going to be working at and they had actually eaten at a local restaurant that received food from the farm and praised it immensely. So it was cool to get a preview of what is to come and start to see the impact of another piece of our project. Overall, this week has been a great start and only looks to be getting better!
May 5th, 2019, 7:15 pm
My first week of senior project has been an incredible experience and extremely rewarding. This week I learned an enormous amount about scuba diving. Starting with my e-certification course, I learned all about buoyancy and the theory behind scuba diving. I completed numerous skills, completing emergency procedures for mishaps underwater. The first time I took my mask off underwater at the beginning of the week, pure panic struck me and I started to accidentally suck water in through my nose. Even with my regulator in, it felt like I couldn’t breathe and I couldn’t see anything. Now, I have taken it on and off in a number of dives as deep as 45 feet and it doesn’t phase me at all. I learned how to keep myself calm in situations and am very proud to have made it through my night dive without any panic or serious fear. The whole week was amazing. I got to dive already at so many different dive sites, and there are more to come. I feel confident in my diving skills. This week, everything went as planned, which was great. This weeks activities have led me to complete my first goal of my project, which is mastering scuba diving. Although, there is more to come, and always room to grow, I have so far had great success. During our week, we also came across pieces of our other two goals. After speaking with our scuba masters, and with prior experience to the area, we have discovered that Hurricane Irma has actually had a positive effect on the marine life. Our scuba masters told us that a lot of the marine life has made great growth in the past two years, they believe, from a relief from the heavy tourism that hurricane granted. During our dives, we also watched as they were forced to kill numerous lionfish with a spear gun. Lionfish are extremely invasive to the area and have very negative effects on their new environment. Our scuba masters also told us that they have heard of the farm we are soon going to be working at and they had actually eaten at a local restaurant that received food from the farm and praised it immensely. So it was cool to get a preview of what is to come and start to see the impact of another piece of our project. Overall, this week has been a great start and only looks to be getting better!
Congrats on a successful first week, Cat! The GVT misses you!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're achieving goals and looking forward to the next phase!
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