Dive the great waters around Jupiter, Florida. We will dive Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Make 6 offshore boat dives. Trip includes 3 nights motel (double occ.), 3 days offshore diving with Jupiter Dive Center, and airfills.
Fish/Shark/Turtle ID classes are available prior to trip.
Easy for beginners.
Complete TWA REEF fish ID data sheets each day.
Dive the great waters around Jupiter, Florida and Blue Heron Bridge. We will dive Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Make 4 offshore boat dives and 4 dives at Blue Heron Bridge. Trip includes 2 nights motel (double occ.), 2 days offshore diving with Jupiter Dive Center, and airfills.
Each dive will be an opportunity to complete a TWA REEF fish ID sheet.
Fish/Shark/Turtle ID class is available prior to the trip for an additional cost and with advance notification.
Check in is 8 AM
Come join us for a drift dive on a deeper reef (<60 ft) and have the boat pick you up when you are done. 2nd dive will be on a shallower reef & might not be a drift dive (depends on conditions)
Call the Key Dives to reserve your spot at 305 664 2211
Key Dives is located at MM 80 at Bud N Mary's Marina.
We are very fortunate to host Dr. Benjamin Victor during our upcoming 100 Fish ID class on Thursday, Oct 2nd at 7 pm at REEF HQ. Dr. Victor will give a lecture on "New Information on Gobies & Blennies". The discussion will include where to find the different species & troublesome ID's (we can all use this help!).Dr. Victor is diving with us next week to collect goby & blenny specimens for his research to genetically define these species.
Fish ID lecture focusing on grunts: their habitats, diet, reproduction & cool facts; along with basic & advanced Fish ID reviews to help you correctly identify them while diving.
Fish ID lecture focusing on gobies: their habitats, diet, reproduction & cool facts; along with basic & advanced Fish ID reviews to help you correctly identify them while diving.
Visit: www.100fishid.com - Fish ID Tab to see the most common fish. Put your cursor on the fish to show the family & species name ( www.100fishid.com/#!gallery/c1pwt )
BLUE HERON BRIDGE SHORE DIVE at PHIL FOSTER STATE PARK, RIVIERA BEACH FL
Road trip to Blue Heron Bridge for a Shore Dive to find unusual critters: batfish, fly gurnards, sea horses, frogfish, jawfish.....
This is a 1 tank 90-120 minute shallow shore dive (<25 ft).
ENTER WATER 60-90 MINUTES BEFORE SLACK HIGH TIDE (1:33 pm on 11/14)
Carlos & I will be at BHB by 11:30 am to give an orientation. We will enter the water by 12 pm.
Attempt a 2 hour, 100 Fish ID dive, or do 2 tanks or snorkel on Alligator Ledge. Alligator Ledge has a high diversity of fish species and a huge abundance of each species. You have to push the fish out of the way to see the reef :) This is a shallow reef in 12-28 ft of water.
Managing natural populations and communities requires detailed information regarding demographic processes (or status of a population) at large spatial and temporal scales. This combination is challenging for both traditional scientific surveys, which often operate at localized scales, and citizen science designs, which often provide data with few auxiliary information (i.e. no information about individual age or condition).
The authors of this study (including REEF staff Lad Akins) examined the recent case of Indo-Pacific lionfish invading Northern Gulf of Mexico coastal waters. The authors compared traditional reef fish monitoring efforts to less traditional data including the observations of divers through REEF's Volunteer Fish Survey Project and spearfishers. They found that citizen observations documented lionfish 1-2 years earlier and more frequently than the more traditional monitoring efforts.
