November 12, 2010 And so begins my last weekend on the water as an intern for the RJ Dunlap program… After the previous week, when we sampled 25 sharks in just two days, expectations were high as we set out on the water this beautiful Friday morning. We headed to our outer reef spot. Depths […]
November 6, 2010 The weekend continued as I set off down to the dock with more students. The crew on the previous trip was quite tired and slept most of the journey down to Islamorada. Word spread fast of success from the previous day, especially after satellite tagging a bull shark and welcoming the newest member of Palmer […]
November 5, 2010 From here on out, I have decided to theme all of my blogs around songs currently in my music library. Hope you all enjoy. This current entry steals its name from the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit, “Can’t Stop.” Why? Keep on reading…. Our first set of November trips came right as […]
Blog 21 A Day With RJD I got to out with the RJD team again today (Oct. 9th). I was so excited to see what we would catch. I brought some of my shark cookies with to share too. I thought they would really like them! When we were driving out to our spot, I […]
Friday, October 29, 2010 This song best describes our most recent trip to our gulf coast site near Fort Myers, Florida for many reasons. First of all, we put out three satellite tags in one day (two bull sharks and one tiger shark), and secondly because the day was filled with intensity, bumps, dives and […]
Blog 20 Tagging my Shark I went out on the ocean today to tag my shark “Captain Curt”. I was very excited when I left the dock on Captain Curt’s boat. My uncle, Captain Curt, was super excited too! My Auntie Kelli, my Dad, my friend Chad, Dr. Neil and the Fox National News came […]
Sunday, October 24th 2010 On Sunday the RJ Dunlap program took out the South Broward High School to tag and conduct research on sharks. The water was very choppy, but the sun was shining and the temperature was warm. First the team and the high school students set out ten drumlines. When we went […]
Saturday, October 23, 2010 Today was another beautiful day out on the water, and I was glad to be out. It was my first day back in a few months thanks to paper writing. We had St. Thomas Aquinas with us today, fifteen students and two very dedicated teachers. We also had a guest researcher […]
October 22, 2010 We set out on Friday with high hopes for our day of research. Because we had been coming up shy, we decided we were going to put out 30 drumlines along our site this time. We knew we were in for a long day, but with the beautiful weather and calm […]
Saving Sharks with Sophi – Blog 19 – Dinner with Jim Abernethy I got to have dinner with my new shark friend Jim in Florida when I was there. He brought me a book, from my Grandma too, that he wrote. He took all of the pictures of sharks in it too. He even wrote […]