The first few minutes are the breathtakers! That first jump into the water somewhat takes your breath away but once you begin swimming a bit, then it is okay and feels a bit warmer (even if only in my mind). Thank goodness the sessions are only ~30 min.
My first session was truncated at 13:56 min because Princess decided she really liked me and wanted to crowd me out. I try to have the dolphins ignore me so that I can record dolphin-dolphin behavior and interactions.
Kathleen joins John and Kristy and brings scientists from Sweden, too The underwater visibility was not great but Kristy still was able to collect some video data with the MVA. John was able to capture several images of the facility as well.
Kathleen arrived to overlap for a few days with Kristy and then finish up this month's field season. Also joining DCP this trip are Mats Amundin, Christer Blomqvist, Josefin Starkhammar, and Sofia Dahl representing Linköping University and Kolmårdens Djurpark in Sweden.
Due to a mid-day meeting, we didn't go to DE today MaryEllen and I did more exploring of downtown Nassau today. We checked out the Pirate Museum, some other museums, and shopping. There are so many things to do in Nassau, and we ran out of time to visit them all!! John arrived today, to do some filming for DCP and DE, and MaryEllen leaves tomorrow, so our focus will shift back towards data collection for the next couple of weeks.