The day dawned windy with rain. No AM underwater data collection but lots of surface dolphin observations today. The guys did a second day of dives on the south side of Roatan. The day was …
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Wind! Some Current and better Underwater Visibility!
We woke before sunrise to the sound of rain, leading us to believe the underwater visibility might have deteriorated. But, the west side of Anthony’s Key looked good. The rain had …
Tug-o-war??
This morning saw an early data collection session so Don and Will could do the early morning wreck dive. The underwater visibility was a bit better than …
Great Object Play Behavior, Poor Underwater Vis
Our first session for observations and video collection went well overall, even though the underwater visibility was poor – 3 m at most and silty. Still, the dolphins …
Travel, Arrival!
It was a relatively smooth day for four of us. Don, Bill, Will arrived from Houston and I arrived from Miami. Roatan was sunny and warm! The immigration line …
Data, Data, Data!
Of course, we began the day with data collection … and it was relatively quiet (maybe even a tad bit boring) for surface observations and space use data collection. Kathleen agreed, saying the underwater views were similarly quiet. There were numerous …
Double Dolphin Dare
Today was packed full of dolphins from the morning data collection session to our dolphin encounter and, slightly delayed, swim with dolphins to a lengthy/double platform session where we learned a bit more of what dolphin training involves. It was HOT and …
Coral Cuties
Our day began, as usual, with dolphin data collection. It was nearly as hot as yesterday but with no breeze and no clouds. The sea was calm and the dolphins were somewhat active in small bouts of leaping activity across the …
Go with the Waves
We woke to a very calm day but there was a slight breeze that gave a few wavelets. Kathleen mentioned that the current picked up as she was wrapping up data collection. Of course, the session seemed very eventful and several dolphins were …
Dolphin Four Play
Our first day of data collection went very well and started with an introduction to the pools and where we’d collect data while Kathleen collects underwater video. She was able to collect a bit more than 30 minutes of underwater footage with the two GoPros and …