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"In a nutshell, the Marine Biology trip to Belize was simply amazing," said Chris Reeves, Camdenton High School science teacher and sponsor for a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the 17 Camdenton High School students who traveled with Reeves.
The trip started with a float down a river flowing through the rainforest, tubing through an underground river in total darkness (they did have headlamps), and hiking through the rainforest (where they learned how to survive by eating termites).
The group visited a tropical education center at night where they had access to animals such as tapirs and jaguars and were allowed to feed them. Also part of the rainforest portion of the trip, they rode a zip line through the canopy of the rainforest.
The island portion of the trip included kayaking, snorkeling, conch shell diving and SCUBA diving the wall of an atoll island (dormant volcanic).
While diving, the students were visited by an extremely large (and rare) loggerhead sea turtle which allowed them to swim with him. They were also able to dive with barracuda and small nurse sharks.
Students interacted with scientists from Boston University who were conducting research on “our” coral patch by studying how plankton are distributed in the reef and what factors affect this distribution.
"In a nutshell, the Marine Biology trip to Belize was simply amazing," said Chris Reeves, Camdenton High School science teacher and sponsor for a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the 17 Camdenton High School students who traveled with Reeves.
The trip started with a float down a river flowing through the rainforest, tubing through an underground river in total darkness (they did have headlamps), and hiking through the rainforest (where they learned how to survive by eating termites).
The group visited a tropical education center at night where they had access to animals such as tapirs and jaguars and were allowed to feed them. Also part of the rainforest portion of the trip, they rode a zip line through the canopy of the rainforest.
The island portion of the trip included kayaking, snorkeling, conch shell diving and SCUBA diving the wall of an atoll island (dormant volcanic).
While diving, the students were visited by an extremely large (and rare) loggerhead sea turtle which allowed them to swim with him. They were also able to dive with barracuda and small nurse sharks.
Students interacted with scientists from Boston University who were conducting research on “our” coral patch by studying how plankton are distributed in the reef and what factors affect this distribution.
