Best Day Ever!
November 13, 2010 Today was an awesome day out on the water. We had MAST Academy out with us and they were ready to do some serious shark tagging. We had a few people getting sea sick as we were putting out our drumlines but as soon as we pulled up the first line, all […]
“You’re the only ten I see…”
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 […]
A Great Experience
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 […]
“Can’t Stop”
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 […]
Saving Sharks with Sophi – Blog 21 – A day with RJD
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 […]
“Welcome to the Jungle”
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 […]